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ey0017.13-10 | Endocrinology | ESPEYB17

13.10. Timing of the infancy-childhood growth transition in rural Gambia

RM Bernstein , GK O’Connor , EA Vance , N Affara , S Drammeh , DB Dunger , A Faal , KK Ong , F Sosseh , AM Prentice , SE Moore

To read the full abstract: Front. Endocrinol. 2020 11:142. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00142• A delayed transition from the infancy to the childhood growth stage contributes to sub-optimal growth outcomes.• Using a novel method to assess the timing of infancy-childhood transition (quantification of patterns of adjacent monthly weight-for-age z-score (WAZ) deviation correlations), th...