PMID- 35193534
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220309
LR  - 20220309
IS  - 1471-2393 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2393 (Linking)
VI  - 22
IP  - 1
DP  - 2022 Feb 22
TI  - Decadal change in the association between the status of young mother's Body Mass 
      Index and anaemia with child low birth weight in India.
PG  - 147
LID - 10.1186/s12884-022-04486-5 [doi]
LID - 147
AB  - BACKGROUND: The study aims to investigate the changes in the socio-economic and 
      demographic status of young mothers of age 15-24 years and to examine the 
      association between mothers' nutrition, i.e., Body Mass Index (BMI) and anaemia 
      with child low birth weight for almost two decades during 1998-2016 in India. 
      METHODS: National Family Health Survey (NFHS) round II and IV were used. The 
      sample of this study included 3405 currently married young mothers from NFHS II 
      and 44,742 from NFHS IV who gave birth at least one child in the last three years 
      preceding the surveys. Logistic regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition 
      analysis have been used in this study to examine the corresponding association 
      between the concerned variables. RESULTS: The analysis showed that the prevalence 
      of low birth weight (LBW) babies has decreased from 26.1 to 22.8 for the 15 to 19 
      age group and from 20.4 to 18.7 for the 20 to 24 age group over time. Young 
      mothers with low BMI or severe anaemia have shown higher odds of having LBW 
      babies. For instance, the odds of having a LBW child was 1.44 (p-value = 0.000; 
      95% CI: 1.05, 1.65) for mothers with low BMI and 1.55 (p-value = 0.000; 95% CI: 
      1.27, 1.90) with severe anaemia. Over the decade, the association of LBW babies 
      with mothers' nutrition has decreased. The odds of LBW with mothers with low BMI 
      decreased from 1.63 (p-value = 0.004; 95% CI: 1.21, 2.21) to 1.41 
      (p-value = 0.000; 95% CI: 1.27, 1.55). Similarly, mothers with severe anaemia, 
      the odds of LBW child decreased from 2.6 (p-value = 0.000; 95% CI: 1.75, 3.8) in 
      1998 to 1.3 (p-value = 0.024; 95% CI: 1.02, 1.65) in 2016. CONCLUSIONS: The 
      maternal and child health improvement in India has been moderate over the decade. 
      Still, a significant proportion of the women are suffering from poor health and 
      young mothers are at more risk to deliver LBW babies. It is highly recommended to 
      integrate maternal and child health programmes with the ongoing health policies 
      to improve the situation while taking additional care of the young pregnant 
      mother and their nutritional health.
CI  - (c) 2022. The Author(s).
FAU - Banerjee, Anuja
AU  - Banerjee A
AD  - International Institute for Population Sciences, Govandi Station Road, Mumbai, 
      400088, India.
FAU - Sen, Soumendu
AU  - Sen S
AD  - International Institute for Population Sciences, Govandi Station Road, Mumbai, 
      400088, India. sen.soumendu16@gmail.com.
FAU - Khan, Junaid
AU  - Khan J
AD  - International Institute for Population Sciences, Govandi Station Road, Mumbai, 
      400088, India.
FAU - Pal, Manoranjan
AU  - Pal M
AD  - Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B.T. Road, Kolkata, 700108, India.
FAU - Bharati, Premananda
AU  - Bharati P
AD  - Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B.T. Road, Kolkata, 700108, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220222
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
JT  - BMC pregnancy and childbirth
JID - 100967799
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Age Distribution
MH  - Anemia/*epidemiology
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Surveys
MH  - Humans
MH  - India/epidemiology
MH  - *Infant, Low Birth Weight
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - Maternal Health/*trends
MH  - Mothers/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Nutritional Status
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic/*epidemiology
MH  - Social Determinants of Health
MH  - Sociodemographic Factors
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC8864895
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Anaemia
OT  - Body-mass index
OT  - Decadal change
OT  - India
OT  - Low birth weight
OT  - National Family Health Survey
COIS- The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
EDAT- 2022/02/24 06:00
MHDA- 2022/03/11 06:00
PMCR- 2022/02/22
CRDT- 2022/02/23 05:29
PHST- 2021/08/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/02/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/02/23 05:29 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/02/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/03/11 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/02/22 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s12884-022-04486-5 [pii]
AID - 4486 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s12884-022-04486-5 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2022 Feb 22;22(1):147. doi: 10.1186/s12884-022-04486-5.