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      <JournalTitle>Journal of Medical and Surgical Research</JournalTitle>
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      <Volume-Issue>Vol. III, n 3 </Volume-Issue>
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      <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic>
      <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage>
      <Season>February, 2017</Season>
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        <Year>-0001</Year>
        <Month>11</Month>
        <Day>30</Day>
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      <ArticleType>JMSR Pediatrics</ArticleType>
      <ArticleTitle>Evaluation of the Infant and Young Child Feeding Index Among Moroccan Children</ArticleTitle>
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      <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage>
      <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA>
      <FirstPage>297</FirstPage>
      <LastPage>312</LastPage>
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          <FirstName>Mouna</FirstName>
          <LastName>Habibi</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor>
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          <FirstName>Fatima Zahra</FirstName>
          <LastName>Laamiri</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
          <Affiliation/>
          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
          <ORCID/>
          <FirstName>Hassan</FirstName>
          <LastName>Aguenaou</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
          <ORCID/>
          <FirstName>Loubna</FirstName>
          <LastName>Doukkali</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
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          <FirstName>Mustapha</FirstName>
          <LastName>Mrabet</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
          <ORCID/>
          <FirstName>Amina</FirstName>
          <LastName>Barkat</LastName>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
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      <Abstract>Background. Several investigations worldwide have scrutinized the ability of the infant and young child feeding index (ICFI) in evaluating the child-feeding practices and their correlation with children__ampersandsign#39;s nutritional status.&#13;
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Methods. Grounded in the feeding index concept, as laid out by Ruel and Menon in 2002, a cross-sectional ICFI was set-up and the variables were rated in 297 aged 6-24-mo-old Moroccan children from Casablanca. The relation between ICFI and weight-for-age Z-scores (WAZ), length-for-age Z-scores (LAZ) and weight-for-length Z-scores (WLZ) was assessed with use of anthropometric data. The data obtained were analyzed using a nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis H test, post hoc Mann-Whitney U-test, and Bonferroni correction.&#13;
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Results. In our survey, a significant interaction was observed between LAZ and the total ICFI (p less than 0.001) in virtually all age groups. Whereas, a link has been objectified between WLZ and ICFI only for children aged 6-8 months (p less than 0.001), and further, WAZ and ICFI considering the 9- to 11-mo-old as well as the 12- to 24-mo-old age groups.&#13;
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Conclusions. These findings are in line with previous observations by Ruel and Menon and numerous surveys documented in evidence-based literature that supported the positive contribution of child feeding practices on child growth by using ICFI.</Abstract>
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        <ReferencesfirstPage>16</ReferencesfirstPage>
        <ReferenceslastPage>19</ReferenceslastPage>
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