Benjamin-Chung, J;
Mertens, A;
Colford, JM;
Hubbard, AE;
van der Laan, MJ;
Coyle, J;
Sofrygin, O;
... Ali, H; + view all
(2025)
Author Correction: Earlychildhood linear growth
faltering in low- and
middle-income countries.
[Corrigendum].
Nature
, 637
(8045)
, Article E18. 10.1038/s41586-024-08344-6.
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Abstract
Correction to: Naturehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06418-5 Published online 13 September 2023 The code that we used to fit meta-analyses for the proportion of children stunted by age in Fig. 3a and Extended Data Figs. 8–10 incorrectly used the total number of children in the denominator for incidence, which incorrectly included children no longer at risk of stunting (i.e., children who had become stunted at the previous age). In the “Onset of stunting in early life” section, in the text now reading “The percentage that experienced incident stunting onset between birth and 3 months ranged from 7% to 57% in each cohort and was 18% overall”, the percentages previously read “6%”, “47%” and “16%.” We also made analogous corrections in the Supplementary information to figures of age-stratified stunting incidence. Following this correction, age-stratified stunting incidence levels were higher after birth, but trends remained similar overall. We revised the links in the Code availability section for the replication code to include these corrections. Additionally, we mislabeled the y axes of Fig. 4b and Extended Data Fig. 12 and their corresponding captions as “Incidence proportion” instead of “Proportion”. We have also corrected a typographical error in cited figures in the Methods “Linear growth velocity” section, and now cite Fig. 6 and Extended Data Fig. 14 in place of Fig. 5 and Extended Data Fig. 10. Additionally, the Reporting summary did not include an email address to contact for data requests, which is now updated. These corrections do not change the inferences we drew from the study. For comparison, original and revised figures are available in the Supplementary information. The updates appear in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. Supplementary information is available in the online version of this amendment.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Author Correction: Earlychildhood linear growth faltering in low- and middle-income countries |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41586-024-08344-6 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08344-6 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. © The Author(s) 2024 |
| Keywords: | Ki Child Growth Consortium |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206813 |
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