Bose Kaushik, Mandal Gopal Chandra
Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India.
Malays J Nutr. 2010 Apr;16(1):131-6. Epub 2010 Apr 15.
The three conventional anthropometric indicators of childhood undernutrition are stunting (low height-for-age), underweight (low weight-for-age) and wasting (low weight-for-height). Recently a new composite index, namely the Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) has been proposed and utilised to study childhood undernutrition. In this paper, we have attempted to construct three new indices of undernutrition, relative to the CIAF. These three indices are: Stunting Index (SI) = Stunting / CIAF, Underweight Index (UI) = Underweight / CIAF and Wasting Index (WI) = Wasting / CIAF. Furthermore, we have calculated and compared these indices using our dataset as well as other existing datasets. Using our dataset, the sex-combined values of SI, UI and WI were 0.364, 0.866 and 0.684, respectively. The corresponding values among boys were 0.364, 0.866 and 0.729. Among girls, they were 0.380, 0.866 and 0.641, respectively. When applied to the all India dataset, the values of SI, UI and WI were 0.756, 0.788 and 0.266, respectively. Similar values (SI = 0.723, UI = 0.681, WI = 0.294) were observed when they were computed on data available from Coimbatore, South India. In conclusion, we suggest that these three new indices provide additional information on the prevalence of different forms of undernutrition relative to the total level of undernutrition in a particular population.
儿童期营养不良的三个传统人体测量指标是发育迟缓（年龄别身高低）、体重不足（年龄别体重低）和消瘦（身高别体重低）。最近，一种新的综合指数，即人体测量失败综合指数（CIAF）被提出并用于研究儿童期营养不良。在本文中，我们尝试构建相对于CIAF的三个新的营养不良指数。这三个指数分别是：发育迟缓指数（SI）=发育迟缓/CIAF，体重不足指数（UI）=体重不足/CIAF，消瘦指数（WI）=消瘦/CIAF。此外，我们使用我们的数据集以及其他现有数据集计算并比较了这些指数。使用我们的数据集，SI、UI和WI的性别合并值分别为0.364、0.866和0.684。男孩中的相应值分别为0.364、0.866和0.729。女孩中的相应值分别为0.380、0.866和0.641。当应用于全印度数据集时，SI、UI和WI的值分别为0.756、0.788和0.266。当根据印度南部哥印拜陀的可用数据计算时，观察到类似的值（SI = 0.723，UI = 0.681，WI = 0.294）。总之，我们建议这三个新指数提供了关于特定人群中不同形式营养不良患病率相对于营养不良总水平的额外信息。
