This raises a concern for the development of the child and future prospects given the importance of feeding practices for the wellbeing of the child.
The resources and confounders were introduced to the multivariate logistic regression analyses, which then provided unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios calculated with 95% confidence intervals for the feeding practices, consumption of HP snacks and SSBs and double burden of suboptimal feeding.
In the Sahel, the rate of global acute malnutrition is higher between 6 months and 2 years old, because of sub-optimal infant and young child feeding practices; for instance the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of life - 20% - is very low compared to 40% in other African regions.
We did not adjust each infant feeding practice for the others because of collinearity and to enable us to obtain the independent effect of each feeding practice upon undernutrition.
The behaviour change counselling is modelled after the Guiding Principles for Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child, 80 the UNICEF Program Guide for Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices 81 and the Alive and Thrive initiative.
aVariables are categorical and indicate favorable practice, except for the variable of 'using bottle feeding" that was undesired practice.
Paraceta-mol excretion or isotope studies are probably better methods to determine gastric emptying [ 8, 13] but gastric residual volume measurements are easy to use in daily practice for determining the tolerance of enteral feeding.
The second underlying mechanism is between-farm variation in feeding practice, for example in the amount of feed used or the age of animals at which protein-enriched feedstuff is fed.
Although case finding occurred at oncology practices, the primary care physicians who saw these patients were in private practice and fed into many healthcare systems and followed many different clinical practice guidelines for the management of CRC symptoms.
In building the fully adjusted model, the following two steps were followed: (1) estimate the fully adjusted model for all variables presented in respective tables except for the four variables listed under "feeding practices", (2) to obtain the independent effect of each feeding practice, we re-estimated the model in (1) including also the feeding practice variable of interest.
