Background Sri Lanka has made remarkable improvements in health, social and educational indices. However, child malnutrition exists as a significant health problem. Infant feeding indicators have not reached expected ...

Introduction: Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is recommended up to six months of age and is usually estimated by the 24-recall method which actually overestimates the real rate. EBF rate in Sri Lanka up to 4 months of age ...

Anthropometric equations for predicting body fat based on the measurements of body weight, length, width, circumference, and skin-fold thickness have been developed since the early 1920s. In spite of the evolution of newer ...