Sentence examples for underweight child from inspiring English sources

When she does give birth, it is to an undernourished, underweight child with a low level of immunity.

The shortage of resources means in some places a very underweight child with a body mass index of about 15 is deemed not thin enough to get care.

The survey collected data on anthropometric measurements (weight and height/length) and clinical signs (bilateral oedema) of all children under 5 years, so as to estimate indicators of stunting (child too short for their age), wasting (child too thin for their height/length) and underweight (child too thin for their age).

It recognises an underweight child as having 60% 80% of the expected weight in the absence of pedal oedema.

In this study mothers with BMI < 18.5 were more likely to have stunted and underweight child than their counterparts.

Forty-five percent of children under five years are underweight – 78 million - representing half of all underweight child population in the world.

Zinc also helped save severely underweight children.

Parents of severely underweight children were also notified.

"No wonder there are so many stunted and underweight children".

But the incidence of underweight children rose and acute malnutrition doubled.

Agricultural growth reduces the proportion of underweight children, whereas non-agricultural growth does not.