Relative Merits of Selected Anthropometric Measurements for Detecting Protein-Energy-Malnutrition (PEM) in Children Under Five Years in a Resource Limited Setting

Hamed Ademola Adetunji; Gafaar Sola Salami; Mohamed Salih El Fadil; Mohammed Shamim; Tabrez Uz Zaman; Mohammed Bakri; Khalil Mohamed; Mohamed Osman Elamin Bushara

Relative Merits of Selected Anthropometric Measurements for Detecting Protein-Energy-Malnutrition (PEM) in Children Under Five Years in a Resource Limited Setting

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International Journal of Medicine and Public Health,2019,9,4,154-159.

DOI:10.5530/ijmedph.2019.4.33

Published:December 2019

Type:Original Article

Relative Merits of Selected Anthropometric Measurements for Detecting Protein-Energy-Malnutrition (PEM) in Children Under Five Years in a Resource Limited Setting

Hamed Ademola Adetunji^1,*, Gafaar Sola Salami², Mohamed Salih El Fadil¹, Mohammed Shamim³, Tabrez Uz Zaman⁴, Mohammed Bakri¹, Khalil Mohamed¹, Mohamed Osman Elamin Bushara³

¹Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, SAUDI ARABIA.

²Department of Special Education, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, NIGERIA.

³Department of Health Promotion and Education. College of Public Health and Health Informatics, Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, SAUDI ARABIA.

⁴Department of Health Information Technology and Management, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, SAUDI ARABIA.

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In order to find out the most sensitive anthropometric measurement that will diagnose Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) in Nigerian pre-school children. Three hundred children between the ages of 12 and 60 months (100 each of Normal, PEM and other malnutrition) were measured for height, weight, upper-arm circumference, triceps skinfold and subscapular skinfold thickness. The results showed that Triceps skinfold is the most sensitive anthropometric indicator for diagnosis of PEM in the study population. This supports the hypothesis that energy deficiency may be a more predominant factor in the causation of PEM in Nigeria.

Keywords:Anthropometric measurement, Developing countries, Protein-Energy-Malnutrition, Resource restricted, under-five

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Adetunji HAdemola, Salami GSola, Fadil MSalih El, Shamim M, Zaman TUz, Bakri M, et al. Relative Merits of Selected Anthropometric Measurements for Detecting Protein-Energy-Malnutrition (PEM) in Children Under Five Years in a Resource Limited Setting. International Journal of Medicine and Public Health. 2019;9(4):154-159.

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