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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4126</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.131824</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Nutritional Status Based on Anthropometry of Tribal Children aged 3-11 Years of Paschimanchal Area in West Bengal, India&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mollah</surname><given-names>Ujjwal</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bisai</surname><given-names>Samiran</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Nandi</surname><given-names>Dilip Kumar</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>26</day><month>11</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>8)</volume><issue/><fpage>144</fpage><lpage>150</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Nutritional status of tribal population of India is not agreeable. Therefore, present study was embraced to survey&#13;
the nutritional status among tribal children aged 3-11years of Paschimanchal area in West Bengal, India.&#13;
Methods: Present cross-sectional study was undertaken in two tribal concentrated blocks of Bankura and Purulia district during&#13;
May, 2018 __ampersandsignndash; October, 2019. An aggregate of 637 (301 girls and 336 boys) children aged 3-11 years were contemplated. Weight,&#13;
height, MUAC measurements were measured and recorded by standard techniques. Body mass index (BMI) was computed by&#13;
&#13;
standard equation. Children were considered as underweight, thin, and stunting of their weight-for-age, BMI-for-age, and height-&#13;
for-age Z-scores __ampersandsignlt;-2.0 SD of the WHO reference standards. Standard statistical tests were performed by MedCalc software&#13;
&#13;
version 19.6. A p-value __ampersandsignlt;0.05 was considered as statistical significant.&#13;
Result: Overall prevalence of underweight, thinness, and stunting was 56.2%, 56.0%, and 21.3%, respectively. About 22.4%,&#13;
24.6%, and 5.3% of children were found to be severely underweight, thin, and stunted. The rates of stunting was significantly&#13;
higher among boys (28.3%) compared with girls (14.9%). The boys had 2.25 (OR=2.25, 95% CI: 1.52-3.32) times greater risk&#13;
to be developed stunting.&#13;
Conclusion: According to the WHO classification of severity in malnutrition, the overall prevalence of underweight, thinness,&#13;
and stunting is higher. So, further study in larger augmentation is needed to approve the present findings.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Under nutrition</kwd><kwd> Thinness</kwd><kwd> Tribe</kwd><kwd> children</kwd><kwd> Paschimanchal</kwd><kwd> West Bengal</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
