Bågenholm G, Kristiansson B, Nasher A A
Bull World Health Organ. 1988;66(4):491-8.
A cross-sectional anthropometric study of children aged 0-84 months was performed in 1982-83 in Democratic Yemen. The total sample included 3407 children, representing populations from urban, rural, and slum areas of the country. NCHS/WHO growth data were used for reference purposes.A high overall prevalence of wasting (8.7%) and stunting (35.2%) was found among the children. However, rural children exhibited a satisfactory weight-for-height during the first 6 months of life compared with both the reference and the urban and slum children. Slum children had a high prevalence of wasting during the first 18 months of life.For the younger age groups, rural children were shorter than urban children, but at 7 years of age all the children were similar, with a mean height-for-age corresponding to -1.7 standard deviations of that for the reference population. Mothers in the urban area weighed significantly more than those from the slum or rural areas (P<0.001), but all mothers had similar heights.
1982 - 1983年在民主也门对0 - 84个月大的儿童进行了一项横断面人体测量研究。总样本包括3407名儿童，代表了该国城市、农村和贫民窟地区的人口。使用美国国家卫生统计中心/世界卫生组织的生长数据作为参考。研究发现这些儿童中消瘦（8.7%）和发育迟缓（35.2%）的总体患病率较高。然而，与参考标准以及城市和贫民窟儿童相比，农村儿童在出生后的前6个月身高别体重状况良好。贫民窟儿童在出生后的前18个月消瘦患病率较高。对于年龄较小的儿童群体，农村儿童比城市儿童矮，但在7岁时所有儿童身高相似，年龄别平均身高相当于参考人群的 - 1.7个标准差。城市地区的母亲体重明显高于贫民窟或农村地区的母亲（P<0.001），但所有母亲的身高相似。
