Stunting is a condition resulted from inadequate nutritional intake for a long period. It is a sign of a persistent growth disease in which a childs health and nutritional issues prevent him from growing to his full height. Maternal nutritional status, breastfeeding habits, supplementary feeding routines, and virus exposure are factors that may have contributed to stunting. The presence of three of the five criteria for the metabolic syndrome—central obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia, high density lipoprotein, and hypertension—is required. Stunting has short-term effects like increased morbidity and mortality, impaired cognitive and motor development, higher health care costs, and long-term effects like short stature, increased risk of obesity and other chronic diseases, risk of degenerative disease, and poorer reproductive health. Because there is a greater chance that a chronic condition may emerge, metabolic syndrome is thought to be one of the long-term effects of stunting (obesity, diabetes, heart and blood vessel disease, stroke, cancer and disability in old age). Obesity was caused by nutritional stunting, which impeded fat oxidation. The higher systolic blood pressure is also associated to hypertension. Children who are undernourished are more likely to develop central obesity due to low-grade inflammation brought on by extra visceral fat. Loss of lean mass and subcutaneous fat also contributes to metabolic dysregulation of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and the development of metabolic syndrome.

Stunting

Metabolic Syndrome