Linear growth trajectories in the first two years of life predict attained linear growth and stunting at five years: Results from the MAL-ED multi-country birth cohort study

• Md. Ashraful Alam,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Nutrition Research Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• S. M. Tafsir Hasan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tafsir.hasan@icddrb.org

  Affiliation Nutrition Research Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6062-4072

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• Amena Al Nishan,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Nutrition Research Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Mustafa Mahfuz,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nutrition Research Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Margaret N. Kosek,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

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• Aldo A. M. Lima,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

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• Bruna L. L. Maciel,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0724-1961

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• Tahmeed Ahmed

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nutrition Research Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Office of Executive Director, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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