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SUMMARY:Assessing the double burden of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa:
  lessons from the Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort - Speaker to be conf
 irmed
DTSTART:20201118T163000Z
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CONTACT:Keaghan Yaxley
DESCRIPTION:Sub-Saharan African populations are experiencing the fastest r
 ise in the prevalence obesity while the prevalence of stunting in growth h
 as remained persistently high. Longitudinal data play a key role in our un
 derstanding of variations in physical growth during the lifecourse and hav
 e improved our understanding of the drivers of malnutrition and noncommuni
 cable diseases. However\, longitudinal studies remain particularly scarce 
 in Africa.\n\nThe Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort study\, launched in 
 1990 in South Africa in Johannesburg in the neighborhoods of the South Wes
 tern Township (Soweto)\, has scrutinised the growth and development of 327
 1 children and their caregivers from the early days of the democratical tr
 ansition in South Africa to the present days. It is the longest and larges
 t running birth cohort in Africa\, providing a unique insight of the poten
 tial impact on growth\, development\, and health on three generations of t
 he unprecedented demographic\, nutritional and epidemiologic transitions i
 n South Africa over the last 30 years. This seminar will also cover analyt
 ical methods used to analyse growth data from the BT20+ cohort while refer
 encing important and new methods used in nutritional epidemiology\, includ
 ing: growth modelling\, linking longitudinal environmental data to longitu
 dinal growth data\, and the use of panel data.
LOCATION:Live on Zoom\, pre-registration essential here: bit.ly/3n5e7E8
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