Factors associated with nutritional outcomes in the mother-child dyad: A population-based cross-sectional study

Abstract

Objective To estimate factors associated with double burden of nutritional outcomes in the mother-child dyad at the household level (child stunting and/or maternal overweight). Design Cross-sectional study using the Brazilian Demographic and Health Survey. Nutritional outcomes were: mother with normal weight and child with normal height; overweight mother and child with normal height; mother with normal weight and short-stature child; and overweight mother and child with short stature (double burden). The child was classified as short when height-for-age Z-score was