Nutritional Assessment of Ethiopian Beta-Israel Children: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Getahun Asres, Arthur I. Eidelman

Breastfeeding Medicine · 2011 · 28 citations · 16 references

Abstract

The urban Beta-Israel Jewish pediatric population in Gondar, Ethiopia suffers from a high rate of malnutrition manifested primarily by stunting (height for age), reflecting a state of chronic malnutrition after 6 months of life secondary to inadequate sources of complementary feeds for the breastfeeding infant.

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