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. 2019 Nov 25;17:215. doi: 10.1186/s12916-019-1465-8

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Possible pathways underlying the association between early-life stunting and subsequent body composition and nutritional status. Possible pathways may involve external environmental drivers (blue text), direct changes in growth and tissue masses (green text), or alterations in metabolic pathways (red text). The potential causality of this association requires further research