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- Title
Evaluation of Income and Food Insecurity as Risk Factors for Failure to Thrive: An Analysis of National Survey Data.
- Authors
Edwards, Bathai; Schaefer, Eric W.; Murray-Kolb, Laura E.; Daymont, Carrie
- Abstract
Limited data exist regarding the relationship between socioeconomic risk factors and failure to thrive (FTT). Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from years 1999 to 2014, we sought to determine whether there was a higher prevalence of underweight (<5th percentile weight-for-age [WFA], weight-for-length [WFL], or body mass index-for-age [BFA]), and, therefore, likely a higher risk of FTT, in US children <3 years with low household income or food insecurity compared with children without these factors. Among 7356 evaluated children, there were no significant differences in the prevalence of underweight by adjusted household income quintile, food security, household Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) status, or federal poverty income ratio. These findings do not support a link between low income or food security and underweight in children and, therefore, do not provide support for an association between low income or food security and FTT.
- Subjects
FOOD security; INCOME; SURVEYS; LEANNESS; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; MALNUTRITION; RESEARCH funding; ECONOMIC aspects of diseases; FAILURE to thrive syndrome; LONGITUDINAL method; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 2023, Vol 62, Issue 8, p862
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00099228221150705