Condon-Paoloni D, Cravioto J, Johnston F E, De Licardie E R, Scholl T O
Am J Public Health. 1977 Jul;67(7):651-6. doi: 10.2105/ajph.67.7.651.
The relationship between childhood illnesses and growth increments in length and weight was investigated in a 13-month birth cohort of rural Mexican children. Increments in length and weight for each year from birth to three years were related to high and low frequencies of reported time ill during the same period. Seventy-two of the 276 children had already been characterized as exhibiting "growth failure" relative to other members of the cohorts, and this was considered as a separate factor in the study. We found that upper and lower respiratory infection did not affect incremental gain in height or weight. A high frequency of diarrheal infection was found to reduce weight gain, although gain in height was not affected. Relative to the total sample, the average child with a high frequency of diarrhea achieved only 95 per cent of expected body weight age three; a chidl with both growth failure and high diarrheal frequency reached only 90 per cent of expected body weight at age three.
在一个针对墨西哥农村儿童的13个月出生队列中，研究了儿童疾病与身高和体重增长之间的关系。从出生到三岁期间，每年的身高和体重增长与同期报告的患病时间的高频率和低频率相关。276名儿童中有72名相对于队列中的其他成员已被确定为表现出“生长发育迟缓”，这在研究中被视为一个单独的因素。我们发现，上呼吸道和下呼吸道感染不会影响身高或体重的增加。腹泻感染的高频率被发现会降低体重增加，尽管身高增加不受影响。相对于总样本，腹泻频率高的儿童在三岁时仅达到预期体重的95%；既有生长发育迟缓又有高腹泻频率的儿童在三岁时仅达到预期体重的90%。
