Overnutrition and Scholastic Achievement: Is There a Relationship An 8-Year Follow-Up Study

Flores, Ofelia; Orellana, Yasna; Leyton, Bárbara; Valenzuela, Rodrigo; Barrera, Cynthia; Almagià, Atilio F.; Martínez, Víctor; Ivanovic, Daniza

doi:10.1159/000492004

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“…An earlier study in Chile reported that being overweight was not associated with poorer mathematical and national language proficiencies. 30 Our study did not find the association between being overweight and academic performance either, despite its plausibility.…”

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Possible causalities between malnutrition and academic performances among primary schoolchildren: a cross-sectional study in rural Madagascar

Aiga

Abe²,

Randriamampionona³

et al. 2021

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BackgroundThe importance of addressing malnutrition is increasing in the context of children’s health and their academic performances. Childhood malnutrition further could reduce a country’s economic productivity. No earlier study adequately estimated the causalities between schoolchildren’s malnutrition and their academic performances. How nutritional status contributes to children’s academic performances has never been reported from Madagascar. This study aims to estimate the possible causalities between their nutritional status and academic performances in rural Madagascar.MethodsA cross-sectional household survey was conducted in Antananarivo-Avaradrano district, Madagascar, from November to December 2017, by targeting 404 first and second graders 5–14 years of age enrolled in 10 public primary schools. Children’s anthropometric measurements and structured interviews with their mothers/caregivers were conducted. Children’s academic performances data (mathematical and national language proficiencies) were collected at each school. To estimate associations between their malnutrition and academic performances, bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted. To estimate their possible causalities between them, three conditions were examined (crude covariational relationship, covariational relationship through controlling for a third variable and temporal precedence).ResultsFour independent variables produced significantly positive coefficients with mathematical proficiency in multivariate analysis. Of the four, ‘not being stunted’ and ‘attendance rate’ were estimated to be possible causes of higher mathematical proficiency because they satisfied all the three conditions for a causality. On the other hand, three independent variables produced significantly positive coefficients with national language proficiency in multivariate analysis. Yet, none of them were estimated to be possible causes of higher national language proficiency.ConclusionsA hypothetical causal path indicates that ‘not being stunted’ is likely to have caused higher ‘attendance rate’ and thereby higher ‘mathematical proficiency’ in a two-step manner. This study is the first attempt to estimate the possible causalities between schoolchildren’s nutritional status and their academic performances in Madagascar.

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Possible causalities between malnutrition and academic performances among primary schoolchildren: a cross-sectional study in rural Madagascar

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Randriamampionona³

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“…On the one hand poor or unhealthy nutrition can negatively affect children’s health, growth and cognitive performance. On the other hand over nutrition in children can also increase the incidence of various complications such as cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) risk factors and therefore resulting in poor quality of life from a young age [2].…”

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What Do We Know about Diet and Markers of Cardiovascular Health in Children: A Review

Saeedi

Shavandi

Skidmore

2019

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Chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the main health concerns in the 21st century, with CVD as the number one cause of mortality worldwide. Although CVD hard endpoints such as stroke or heart attack do not usually occur in children, evidence shows that the manifestation of CVD risk factors begins in childhood, preceding clinical complications of CVD in adulthood. Dietary intake is a modifiable risk factor that has been shown to make a substantial contribution to the risk of CVD in adulthood. However, less is known about the association between dietary intake and markers of cardiovascular health in children. This review summarises the current evidence on the relationship between dietary intake and markers of cardiovascular health including traditional CVD risk factors, physical fitness, and indices of arterial stiffness and wave reflection in children. Original research published in English, between January 2008 and December 2018 fulfilling the objective of this review were screened and included. Findings show that adaptation of a healthy lifestyle early in life can be beneficial for reducing the risk of CVD later in life. Furthermore, keeping arterial stiffness low from a young age could be a potential CVD prevention strategy. However, limited studies are available on diet-arterial stiffness relationship in children, and future research is required to better understand this association to aid the development and implementation of evidence-based strategies for preventing CVD-related complications later in life.

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“…For Z-BMI a negative correlation was found only in LSA of school-age children from 2010 1HSG and some publications show an inverse and significant association between SA and obesity [43–46]; nevertheless, other results suggest that obesity is not associated with academic performance [4,5,12,47,48]. Our recent findings in an eight-year follow-up study also show that obesity and SA in the SIMCE and PSU tests, both with nationally coverage in Chile, are not significantly associated [87]. Results also suggest that physical fitness in boys and obesity status in girls could be important factors not only for health status but also for SA, independent of socio-economic and behavioural backgrounds [45].…”

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A multifactorial approach of nutritional, intellectual, brain development, cardiovascular risk, socio-economic, demographic and educational variables affecting the scholastic achievement in Chilean students: An eight- year follow-up study

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The aim of this study was to quantitate the relative impact of nutritional, intellectual, brain development, cardiovascular risk, socio-economic, demographic and educational variables on the results of the 2009 Quality Education Measurement System (SIMCE) tests of language and mathematics for scholastic achievement (SA) applying a multifactorial approach, in school-age children of the 2010 5 th elementary school grade (5ESG) and of the 1 st grade of high school (1HSG). The purposes were: i) to test the hypothesis that intellectual ability, the level of SA of the educational establishments in the 2009 SIMCE tests, sex, parental schooling levels, and head circumference-for-age Z-score are the most relevant parameters associated with 2009 SIMCE outcomes; ii) to determine the predictive ability of the 2009 SIMCE results in determining the 2013 SIMCE outcomes for the 2010 5ESG cohort (when they graduated from elementary school, 8 th grade) and for determining the 2013 University Selection Test (PSU) outcomes for the 2010 1HSG group (for university admission, when they graduated from high school, 4 th grade); iii) to determine the association between the 2009 SIMCE results with the 2017 PSU outcomes for the 2010 5ESG group (for university admission, when they graduated from high school, 4 th grade). A representative, proportional and stratified sample of 33 schools of the Metropolitan Region of Chile was randomly chosen. In these schools, 1,353 school-age children of both sexes, of the 2010 5ESG (n = 682; mean age = 10.8 years, SD = 0.6) and of the 2010 1HSG (n = 671; mean age = 14.8 years, SD = 0.6) participated. In both grades and tests, the findings confirm the hypotheses formulated. 2009 SIMCE outcomes were positively and significantly associated with 2013 SIMCE and with 2017 PSU and, with 2013 PSU outcomes in school-age children from 2010 5ESG and 1HSG, respectively. These findings may be useful for educational and health planning in Chile and countries in a comparable stage of development.

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Overnutrition and Scholastic Achievement: Is There a Relationship An 8-Year Follow-Up Study

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Possible causalities between malnutrition and academic performances among primary schoolchildren: a cross-sectional study in rural Madagascar

Possible causalities between malnutrition and academic performances among primary schoolchildren: a cross-sectional study in rural Madagascar

What Do We Know about Diet and Markers of Cardiovascular Health in Children: A Review

A multifactorial approach of nutritional, intellectual, brain development, cardiovascular risk, socio-economic, demographic and educational variables affecting the scholastic achievement in Chilean students: An eight- year follow-up study

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