1Reseach Scholar, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty Medicine (Unani), Hamdard University, New Delhi, India
2Head, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi, India
3Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
4PHD Scholar, Department of Pharmaceutical Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hamdard University, New Delhi, India
5Associate Professor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty Medicine (Unani), Hamdard University, New Delhi, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Anis Ahmad, E mail: dr.anisadmad@rediffmail.com, Mobile No: +91-9810385610
Online published on 27 April, 2017.
India has witnessed the highest prevalence of underweight children and is nearly double that of Sub Saharan Africa with horrible consequences for mobility, mortality, productivity and economic growth. We aim to assess children according to weight for age using Gomez Classification.
Cross-sectional study.
100 children between the age group of 24 to 47 months of either sex except severely ill and not receiving consent from their parent were undertaken from all the 08 pockets of J. J. colony i.e. Madanpur Khadar extension. Face-to-face oral interview of the father/mother/head of the family and anthropometric examination of all the eligible children were taken.
About 28% of the studied children were normal where as 45%, 25% and 2% were grade-I, grade-II and grade-III underweight for age status respectively. Underweight was found more in age group of 24–35 months which is statistically significant. Grade-I underweight was found in majority of cases.
Gomez Classification, Underweight, Malnutrition, Undernutrition
