Chapter 9 Regionally-stratified plots

9.1 Overview

Purpose: Extended data figures 3-8 show age or regionally stratified plots of PIE of risk factors and child growth Z-scores. This page shows age and regionally stratified plots to allow comparisons of differences across regions in age-specific differences in associations between exposures and child growth faltering. Interpretation: There are regional variations in the rank-ordering of exposures by age and the magnitude of associations, but no unexpected findings obscured by pooling age-specific estimates over regions. Variations in estimates arise from different study populations, different numbers of studies measuring exposures in each region and at each age, and heterogeneity in the study-specific estimates underlying the random-effects pooled estimates. Implications: We did not identify important regionally-specific patterns in age-specific exposure-growth faltering associations that were missed by using regionally-pooled estimates in the supplemental figures.

9.2 Region and age-stratified population attributable differences in length-for-age Z-scores

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9.3 Region and age-stratified population attributable differences in weight-for-length Z-scores

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9.4 Region and age-stratified population attributable differences in weight-for-age Z-scores

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9.5 Associations between key exposures and wasting and stunting cumulative incidence, stratified by the age of the child and by region

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9.6 Associations between key exposures and growth failure of different severities, stratified by region

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9.7 Adjusted differences in linear growth velocity (in centimeters) across 3-month age 624 bands, by quartile of weight-for-length z-score (WLZ) in the preceding three months, stratified by region.

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