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We randomly selected 168 children from a population of 418 whose parents attended school-organized Parent\u2013Teacher Association meetings. Parents provided consent and data on household food consumption in the past week, foods consumed by children in the past 24 hours, and household food insecurity. We drew venous blood from assenting children for the analysis of hemoglobin and plasma retinol, C-reactive protein, and \u03b1\n                      <jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>\n                      -acid glycoprotein. Children were classified as stunted, underweight, or thin based on comparisons with the World Health Organization standards for height-for-age, weight-for-age, or body mass index-for-age, respectively.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Food insecurity was highly prevalent, with \u223c85% of households affected. Roughly half of children had low dietary diversity. Prevalence estimates for stunting, underweight, and thinness were 32%, 50%, and 49%, respectively. Approximately 60% of children had a hemoglobin concentration &lt;11 g\/dL. The mean (\u00b1SD) plasma retinol concentration was 0.79 \u03bcmol\/L (\u00b10.23 \u03bcmol\/L), with 34% deficient using a 0.70 \u03bcmol\/L cutoff.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A heightened focus on tracking progress in underserved populations and appropriately targeted programming will be critical as Bangladesh seeks to accelerate progress toward global development goals for nutrition.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/0379572120965299","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,21]],"date-time":"2020-10-21T05:49:47Z","timestamp":1603259387000},"page":"424-429","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Nutritional Status Among School-Age Children of Bangladeshi Tea Garden Workers"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"41","author":[{"given":"Mohd Shamim","family":"Iqbal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh"},{"name":"Independent University School of Public Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3212-955X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amanda C.","family":"Palmer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. 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