Doctor of Philosophy / Human Nutrition / Richard R. Rosenkranz / Child stunting refers to a condition where the child is relatively shorter in height, in comparison to their age group. Child stunting is a public health nutrition problem that hinders the development of future generations, not only physiologically but also potentially deprives their cognitive function and productivity. The demographic transition, conjoined with the epidemiological and nutrition transitions, has resulted in the coexistence of an over- and under-nutrition problem known as double burden of malnutrition, and child stunting has been a persistent part of the problem. In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that one-fourth of the children in the developing countries have been suffering from child stunting. The objective of this research was to apply the behavioral epidemiology approach to tackle child stunting in households with double burden of malnutrition. It was hypothesized that unlike any other households with problem of child stunting, households with double burden of malnutrition possess some degree of capacity that, with proper support and direction, might enable them to help themselves reduce or prevent this nutrition-related debacle. Results from a secondary data analysis revealed that child stunting was associated with lower dietary diversity as an indication of poor food choice in the household, related to children’s nutrient requirements. Another cross-sectional study in this dissertation was conducted in an urban setting in Indonesia, and found that households with child stunting alone was associated with extreme food insecurity, while households with double burden of malnutrition ─ in the form of stunted child and overweight/obese mother (SCOWT) ─ was associated with even a mild degree of food insecurity. These results support our hypothesis that households with double burden of malnutrition lack the capacity to direct their resources properly to prevent child stunting. Most notably, we expected that the role of the mothers to manage healthy food choices through indirect measure of dietary diversity, availability and distribution within the household was lacking. In order to equip mothers with necessary components to be able to overcome these problems, we conducted a behaviorally based intervention that targeted mothers in the households experiencing the problem of double burden of malnutrition. The intervention provided the potential to achieve participant self-administered goal setting to improve diet, as well as child feeding behavior, by means of improved self-efficacy, nutrition literacy and dietary diversity. Maternal self-efficacy may be potentially enhanced by vicarious experience and active mastery experience gained during 6 sessions of behavioral intervention and verbal motivation by community health workers during 6 additional home visits. These studies, collectively comprising the present dissertation, present a message for policy makers in developing countries: nutrition literacy and behaviors for choosing healthy foods are lacking in mothers that affect both maternal and child food intake, but efforts such as improving vicarious and mastery experience on child feeding practices and healthy food choices can boost mother’s self-efficacy to engage in appropriate behaviors and improve their child’s nutrition.

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Introduction Nutrition transition concerns the broad changes in the human diet that have occurred over time and space. In low- to middle-income countries such as Indonesia, nutrient transition describes shifts from traditional diets high in cereal and fibre towards Western pattern diets high in sugars, fat, and animal-source foods. This causes a swift increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity while undernutrition remains a great public health concern. Thus a double burden of malnutrition occurs in the population. The main aim of this investigation was to explore social and contextual determinants of malnutrition in Indonesia. The specific objectives were: (i) to examine body mass index (BMI) changes at the population level, and between and within socioeconomic groups; (ii) to estimate which context (i.e., household or district) has a greater effect on the variation of BMI; (iii) to assess the prevalence of double burden households (defined as the coexistence of underweight and overweight individuals residing in the same household) and its variation among communities as well as its determining factors; and (iv) to explore and understand what contributes to a double burden of malnutrition within a household by focusing on gender relations. Methods A mixed method approach was adopted in this study. For the quantitative analyses, nationally representative repeated cross-sectional survey data from four Indonesian Family Life Surveys (IFLS; 1993, 1997, 2000, 2007) were used. The IFLS contains information about individual-level, household-level and area-level characteristics. The analyses covered single and multilevel regressions. Data for the qualitative component were collected from sixteen focus group discussions conducted in Central Java and in the capital city Jakarta among 123 rural and urban men and women. Connell’s relational theory of gender and Charmaz’s constructive grounded theory were used to analyse the qualitative data. Results Greater increases in BMI were observed at higher percentiles compared to the segment of the population at lower percentiles. While inequalities in mean BMI decreased between socioeconomic groups, within group dispersion increased over time. Households were identified as an important social context in which the variation of BMI increased over time. Ignoring the household level did not change the relative variance contribution of districts on BMI in the contextual analysis. Approximately one-fifth of all households exhibited a double burden of malnutrition. Living in households with a higher socioeconomic status resulted in higher odds of double burden of malnutrition with the exception of women-headed households and communities with high social capital. The qualitative analysis resulted in the construction of three categories: capturing the significance of gendered power relations, the emerging obesogenic environment, and generational relations for child malnutrition. Conclusion At the population level, greater increases in within-group inequalities imply that growing inequalities in BMI were not merely driven by socioeconomic factors. This suggests that other under-recognised social and contextual factors may have a greater effect on the variation in BMI. At the contextual level, recognition of increased variation among households is important for creating strategies that respond to the differential needs of individuals within the same household. At the household level, women’s empowerment and community social capital should be promoted to reduce inequalities in the double burden of malnutrition across different socioeconomic groups. Ultimately community health and nutrition programmes will need to address gender empowerment and engage men in the fight against the emerging obesogenic environment and increased malnutrition that is evident within households, especially overweight and obesity among children.

PhD, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand / Background: In low- to middle-income countries, rising levels of overweight and obesity are a result of multiple transitions, in particular, a nutrition transition. Consequently, in these countries, metabolic diseases are contributing increasingly to disease burden, despite the persisting burden of undernutrition and infectious diseases. Understanding the patterns and factors associated with persistent undernutrition and emerging obesity in children and adolescents, and concomitant risk for metabolic disease, is therefore of criticial importance. This should contribute to public health policy on interventions to prevent adult disease. Aims: To better understand the double burden of malnutrition in a poor, high HIV prevalent, transitional society in a middle-income country; In so doing, to inform policies and interventions to address the double burden of malnutrition. Methods: A cross-sectional growth survey was conducted in 2007 targeting 4000 children and adolescents 1-20 years of age living in rural South Africa. The survey was nested within the ongoing Agincourt Health and Socio-demographic Surveillance System, which acted as the sampling frame and also provided data for explanatory variables. Anthropometric measurements were performed on all participants using standard procedures. In addition, HIV testing was done on children aged 1 to 5 years and Tanner pubertal assessment was conducted among adolescents 9-20 years. A one-year follow-up of HIV positive children included a matched control group of HIV negative counterparts. Data collection involved both quantitative and qualitative methods. Growth z-scores were used to determine stunting, underweight and wasting and were generated using the 2006 WHO growth standards for children up to five years and the 1977 NCHS/WHO reference for older children. Overweight and obesity were determined using the International Obesity Task Force cut-offs for BMI for children aged up to 17 years and adult cut offs of BMI =25 and =30 kg/m2 for overweight and obesity respectively for adolescents 18 to 20 years. Waist circumference cut-offs of =94cm for males and =80cm for females, and waist-to-height ratio of 0.5 for both sexes, were used to determine central obesity and hence metabolic disease risk in ix adolescents. Descriptive analysis described patterns of nutritional status by age, sex, pubertal stage and HIV status. Linear and logistic regression was done to determine predictors of nutrional outcomes. A p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Prevalence of undernutrition, particularly stunting, was substantial: 18% among children aged 1-4 years, with a peak of 32% in children at one year of age. Stunting and underweight were also substantial in adolescent boys, with underweight reaching a peak of 19% at 14 years of age. Concurrently, the prevalence of combined overweight and obesity, almost non-existent in boys, was prominent among adolescent girls, increasing with age, and reaching a peak of 25% at 18 years. Risk for metabolic disease using waist circumference cut-offs was substantial among adolescents, particularly girls, increasing with sexual maturation, and reaching a peak of 35% at Tanner stage 5. Prevalence of HIV in children aged 1-4 years was 4.4%. HIV positive children had poorer nutritional outcomes than that of HIV negative children in 2007. The impact of paediatric HIV on nutritional status at community level was, however, not significant. Significant predictors of undernutrition in children aged 1-4 years, documented at child, maternal, household and community levels, included child’s HIV status, age and birth weight; maternal age; age of household head; and area of residence. Significant predictors of overweight/obesity and risk for metabolic disease in adolescents aged 10-20 years, documented at individual/child and household levels included child’s age, sex and pubertal development; and household-level food security, socio-economic status, and household head’s highest education level. There was a high acceptance rate for the HIV test (95%). One year following the test, almost all caregivers had accepted and valued knowing their child’s HIV status, indicating that it enhanced their competency in caregiving. Additionally, nutritional status of HIV positive children had improved significantly within a year of follow-up. Conclusions: The study describes co-existing child stunting and adolescent overweight/obesity and risk for metabolic disease in a society undergoing nutrition transition. While likely that this profile reflects changes in nutrition and diet, variation in infectious disease burden, physical activity patterns, and social influences need to be investigated. The findings are critical in the wake of the rising public health importance of metabolic diseases in low- to middle-income countries, despite the unfinished agenda of undernutrition and infectious diseases. Clearly, policies and interventions to address malnutrition in this and other transitional societies need to be double-pronged. In addition, gender-biased nutritional patterns call for gender-sensitive policies and interventions. The study further documents a significant role of paediatric HIV on nutritional status, and the potential for community-based paediatic HIV testing to ameliorate this. Targeted early paediatric HIV testing of exposed or at risk children, followed by appropriate health care for infected children, may improve their nutritional status and survival.

The nature of food insecurity has been changing in the world. While research on food insecurity in developing countries used to focus on undernourishment (i.e. lack of calorie consumption) and related outcomes, today, many developing countries face at least a “double burden of malnutrition” with persistently high rates of undernourishment and increasing rates of overweight, obesity and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). An important driver of overweight and obesity in developing countries is the „nutrition transition“, i.e. the trend towards the consumption of more energy-dense, highly processed foods and more sedentary lifestyles. Two essays of this Ph.D. thesis analyse drivers and consequences of the nutrition transition in developing countries with a particular focus on the role of supermarkets, which have been rapidly spreading in many countries. We provide evidence that the presence of supermarkets causally affects dietary choices and nutritional outcomes. Data collection for this research was carried out in small Kenyan towns of the kind that accommodate most of the country’s urban population. We designed our sample to be quasi-experimental in nature and employ instrumental variable techniques to allow for endogeneity of supermarket purchases. Kenya’s supermarket landscape is dynamic and so far, it has followed the ‘traditional pattern’ of the so-called supermarket revolution. Supermarket purchases are found to contribute to the nutrition transition by shifting consumption towards processed and away from unprocessed foods. At the same time, calorie availability increases as calories are sourced at lower prices in supermarkets. We find that supermarket purchases increase adult Body Mass Index and their probability of being overweight or obese. Yet, we also find that buying in a supermarket tends to decrease underweight among children and adolescents (age 5-19) in terms of stunting (height-for-age). In a third essay, we use secondary household survey data from Malawi to analyse ‘one of the other faces of malnutrition’. The world food price crisis of 2007/08 and other global and regional price and income shocks that followed have spurred interest in producing timely predictions on their implications for food security. A critical research gap remains with comparing simulation outcomes across studies that use different, established methods on the same subject. This is to establish if and to which extent they might result in different and potentially conflicting policy recommendations. We address this gap building on three simulation studies set in Malawi, which analyse welfare in terms of food security and income effects using the same 2004/05 household survey data but resort to methodologies of different complexity. We harmonize simulation scenarios across methods and systematically modify relevant parameters for our comparative assessment. We find differences between methods to depend on the scenario under consideration and to grow with increasing rates of simulated price changes. The differences we find are driven by differences in conceptualising price changes. In case of Malawi, for a reasonable set of observed price changes, mean outcomes on district levels are fairly robust to underlying methodologies. We illustrate that is it important to improve our understanding of how changes in the underlying methodologies change results and to analyse the sensitivity of simulation outcomes to different model assumptions.

Cette étude s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet « Pôle francophone africain sur le Double Fardeau Nutritionnel » (DFN) du laboratoire TRANSNUT, centre collaborateur OMS sur la transition nutritionnelle du Département de Nutrition de l’Université de Montréal, en collaboration avec ses partenaires au Burkina Faso, à savoir l’Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS) et l’Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP). Elle est l’une des premières à s’intéresser au double fardeau de la malnutrition en Afrique francophone. Cette étude avait pour objectif de démontrer l’existence du double fardeau de la malnutrition parmi les adultes de Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso, d’en donner l’ampleur et d’identifier ses liens avec les facteurs du mode de vie. Plus spécifiquement, elle visait à décrire les carences nutritionnelles, les facteurs de risque cardiométabolique (FRCM), et la typologie du double fardeau de la malnutrition; examiner les caractéristiques du mode de vie des adultes et leurs liens avec le double fardeau de la malnutrition selon les conditions économique, et enfin d’examiner l’association entre inflammation subclinique, les carences nutritionnelles et les FRCM selon les facteurs du mode de vie. Ces objectifs faisaient suite à nos principales hypothèses qui stipulaient que : parmi les adultes de Ouagadougou, le phénotype de double fardeau de la malnutrition le plus fréquemment observé est l’association de surpoids/obésité avec une ou plusieurs carences nutritionnelles, surtout chez les femmes, puis qu’une alimentation de piètre qualité, en lien avec de mauvaises conditions socioéconomiques et de vie est associée tant aux FRCM qu’aux carences nutritionnelles, contribuant ainsi au double fardeau de malnutrition, et enfin qu’un état d’inflammation subclinique joue un rôle de médiateur entre le mode de vie et aussi bien les carences nutritionnelles que les FRCM. Afin de répondre à ces objectifs, une étude transversale descriptive et analytique a été conduite auprès d’un échantillon aléatoire de 330 adultes âgés de 25 à 60 ans recrutés au sein de l’Observatoire de Population de Ouagadougou, situé à la partie nord de la ville. Cet échantillon a été subdivisé en terciles du score de possessions matérielles, proxy du statut socioéconomique, avec 110 personnes respectivement dans chaque strate de niveau socioéconomique bas, moyen et élevé. Chaque participant a fourni des données sociodémographiques, anthropométriques, cliniques et comportementales; il a aussi fourni un échantillon de sang. Les principales variables de l’étude étaient les suivantes : l’âge, les conditions socioéconomiques (insécurité alimentaire, éducation et proxy du revenu), le mode de vie (les apports alimentaires et la qualité de l’alimentation, l’activité physique, la consommation d’alcool et de tabac, la perception de l’image corporelle, le stress psychosocial); l’inflammation subclinique; les FRCM [surpoids/obésité, tension artérielle élevée (TAE) ou hypertension artérielle (HTA), hyperglycémie, dyslipidémie et insulino-résistance]; les carences nutritionnelles (maigreur, anémie, carence en fer et en vitamine A). Des phénotypes de double fardeau de la malnutrition ont été identifiés en combinant FRCM et carences nutritionnelles. Les résultats ont montré une prévalence élevée de surpoids/obésité, d’obésité abdominale, d’hypertension artérielle, d’hyperglycémie, de résistance à l’insuline et du taux de lipoprotéine de haute densité (HDL-C) bas, respectivement de 24,2 %, 12,5 %, 21,9 %, 22,3 %, 25,1 % et 30,0 %. En utilisant les seuils plus sensibles de la Fédération Internationale du Diabète (FID), l’obésité abdominale, la tension artérielle élevée (TAE), l’hyperglycémie était respectivement de 23,5 %; 36,1 % et 34,5 %. Des carences nutritionnelles étaient également présentes, l’anémie, la carence en fer et en vitamine A, ainsi que la maigreur atteignant respectivement 25,5 %, 15,4 %, 12,7 % et 9,7 % de la population étudiée. Les femmes étaient significativement plus touchées que les hommes autant par les FRCM que par les carences nutritionnelles. Le double fardeau de la malnutrition touchait 23,5 % des personnes et même 25,8 % avec les seuils de la FID pour l’obésité abdominale, la TAE, et l’hyperglycémie. Les deux principaux phénotypes observés étaient : l’association de « surpoids/obésité avec au moins une carence en micronutriment », touchant 7,8 % (11,8 % ♀ vs. 3,4 % ♂) des personnes et l’association d’au moins un FRCM autre que le surpoids/obésité avec au moins une carence en micronutriment, qui touchait 9.0 % (12,4 % ♀ vs. 5,4 % ♂) des personnes. La prévalence de ces phénotypes était plus élevée en utilisant les seuils de la FID plutôt que les seuils de l’OMS. Près de 72,9 % des personnes ou 81,2 % (seuils de la FID) avaient au moins un FRCM. Nous avons identifié à partir de l’analyse typologique, deux schémas alimentaires; « urbain » et « traditionnel », dans cette étude. Les carences nutritionnelles étaient davantage associées au schéma alimentaire « traditionnel », alors que les FRCM se retrouvaient dans les deux schémas alimentaires. Le schéma « urbain » regroupait significativement plus d’hommes et de personnes de niveau socioéconomique élevé, alors que les personnes de niveau socioéconomique bas et les femmes étaient proportionnellement plus nombreuses dans le schéma « traditionnel ». Le temps dévolu aux activités sédentaires était significativement plus important que celui consacré aux activités d’intensité modérée à vigoureuse. L’activité physique était inversement associée à l’indice de masse corporelle (IMC), au tour de taille (TT), à la masse grasse corporelle, à la tension artérielle systolique (TAS) et diastolique (TAD), à la triglycéridémie et au taux de lipoprotéine de faible densité (LDL-C). L’IMC et le TT augmentaient en outre avec le temps de sédentarité. Ainsi, le double fardeau de malnutrition était associé au statut socioéconomique bas, au sexe féminin et à la sédentarité. Nous avons aussi trouvé que 39,4 % des personnes avaient une inflammation subclinique qui était associée de façon indépendante et positive à la ferritinémie, à l’IMC, au TT et à la masse grasse corporelle, et négativement au HDL-C. L’exploration du stress psychosocial et de l’image corporelle a révélé une association entre le stress psychosocial, l’HTA et une perception positive de l’embonpoint. Les personnes ayant peut-être accusé un retard de croissance à l’enfance (d’après l’indice de Cormic) étaient significativement plus touchées par le surpoids/obésité, l’obésité abdominale et la résistance à l’insuline. Ces résultats nous ont permis d’atteindre nos objectifs, mais aussi de vérifier nos hypothèses de recherche. Comme on peut le constater, les FRCM sont une réalité à Ouagadougou, qui se compliquent par leur coexistence avec des carences en micronutriments dont la prévalence est tout aussi importante. Une transition nutritionnelle est en cours dans cette ville et contribue au bouleversement des comportements alimentaires et du style de vie favorisant l’émergence de ce double fardeau, dans un contexte où le passé nutritionnel de la population offre des conditions idéales pour un niveau de risque particulièrement élevé pour ces FRCM. Cependant, l’évolution de cette prévalence pourrait être inversée ou tout au moins ralentie si des actions étaient entreprises dès maintenant. / This study is a part of a project on the double burden of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, developed and implemented by TRANSNUT, a WHO collaborating centre on nutrition changes and development, of the Department of Nutrition, Université de Montréal, in collaboration with its partners in Burkina Faso (Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé and Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population). The study is among the first to focus on the double burden of malnutrition in French speaking Africa and aimed to describe the occurrence of the double burden among adults living in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, by determining its prevalence and to what extent it was related to life style factors. More specifically, the study aimed to: 1) describe nutrition deficiencies, cardio-metabolic risk factors (CMRF) and double burden phenotypes, to 2) examine the relationship between lifestyle characteristics and the double burden of malnutrition, and finally, 3) to examine the relationship between subclinical inflammation and both CMRF and nutrition deficiencies. We hypothesised that: ‘among the adults of Ouagadougou, the more frequent phenotype of double burden of malnutrition is the association of overweight/obesity with at least one micronutrient deficiency, which is more prevalent in women’; ‘an inadequate quality of the diet related to poor socioeconomic and living conditions is associated to both CMRF and micronutrients deficiencies’ and finally, that ‘subclinical inflammation is a mediator variable between lifestyle and both CMRF and nutrition deficiencies’. We carried out a population based cross-sectional study, descriptive and analytical, with a random sample of 330 adults aged 25-60y, selected from the population observatory of Ouagadougou located in the northern district. This sample was stratified in three income groups using household assets as a proxy of socioeconomic status, with 110 subjects in the following three income strata: low, middle and high. Each subject provided sociodemographic, anthropometric, clinical and lifestyle data and a blood sample for the assessment of the following study variables: age, and socioeconomic conditions (food insecurity, education and income); lifestyle factors (dietary intake and diet quality, physical activity, alcohol and tobacco consumption, body image perception, and psychosocial stress); subclinical inflammation; CMRF (overweight/obesity, high blood pressure or hypertension, hyperglycaemia, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance); nutritional deficiency markers ( underweight, anaemia, iron and vitamin A deficiencies); the double burden of malnutrition phenotypes featured by combining CMRF with nutrition deficiencies factors. We reported a high prevalence of overweight/obesity, abdominal obesity, hypertension, hyperglycaemia, insulin resistance and low concentration of high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), which was 24.2%, 12.5%, 21.9%, 22.3%, 25.1%, and 30.0% respectively. When using International Diabetes Federation (IDF) cut-offs for abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, and hyperglycaemia, their prevalence were 23.5%, 36.1%, and 34.5% respectively. Anaemia, iron and vitamin A deficiencies and underweight were found in 25.5%, 15.4%, 12.7%, and 9.7% of subjects, respectively. Women were more affected by both CMRF and deficiencies than men. When combining CMRF and deficiencies within the same individual, the double burden of malnutrition was reported in 23.5% of subjects and even in 25.8% of them when IDF cut-offs for abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, and hyperglycaemia were used. Two main phenotypes were reported: the co-occurrence of ‘overweight/obesity with at least one micronutrient deficiency’, with a prevalence rate of 7.8% (11.8 % ♀ vs. 3.4 % ♂); and the co-occurrence of ‘CMRF other than overweight/obesity with at least one micronutrient deficiency’, with a prevalence rate of 9.0% (12.4 % ♀ vs. 5.4 % ♂). This prevalences was higher when using IDF cut-offs instead of WHO cut-offs. Finally, 72.9% of the subjects exhibited at least one CMRF and even 81.2% of the subjects when using IDF cut-offs. We also identified in this study population two dietary patterns: “urban” and “traditional”. Nutritional deficiencies were associated with ‘traditional’ dietary pattern, whereas CMRF were found in both patterns without statistical difference. The “urban” dietary pattern was significantly more common in men, high income subjects, whereas low income subjects and women were significantly more numerous in the ‘traditional’ one. Time devoted to sedentary activities was significantly higher than time spent in moderate to vigorous activities. Time in moderate to vigorous activities was significantly and negatively associated with body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and body fat mass, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), triglyceridemia, and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), while BMI and WC were associated to sedentary time. The double burden of malnutrition was associated to low income status, women, and sedentary time. We reported that 39.4% of the subjects exhibited subclinical inflammation, which was independently and positively associated with serum ferritin, BMI, WC, body fat mass, and negatively to HDL-C. Body image evaluation revealed that overweight was perceived as desirable body image among the study subjects. Psychosocial stress was associated with hypertension and subjects who probably faced stunting during infancy (using Cormic Index) exhibited significantly higher prevalence of overweight/obesity, abdominal obesity and insulin resistance. The results allowed us to achieve the study objectives and confirm our hypotheses. CMRF represents an overwhelming issue in adults of Ouagadougou complicated with their coexistence with nutritional deficiencies, also highly prevalent. A nutrition transition is at play in the city, contributing to lifestyle changes favorable to the double burden of malnutrition in such a context where the early life nutritional conditions of the subjects may put them at further enhancement of CMRF. The progression of this prevalence can still be averted or at least be slowed if suitable actions were taken from now.

Cette étude s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet « Pôle francophone africain sur le Double Fardeau Nutritionnel » (DFN) du laboratoire TRANSNUT, centre collaborateur OMS sur la transition nutritionnelle du Département de Nutrition de l’Université de Montréal, en collaboration avec ses partenaires au Burkina Faso, à savoir l’Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS) et l’Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP). Elle est l’une des premières à s’intéresser au double fardeau de la malnutrition en Afrique francophone. Cette étude avait pour objectif de démontrer l’existence du double fardeau de la malnutrition parmi les adultes de Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso, d’en donner l’ampleur et d’identifier ses liens avec les facteurs du mode de vie. Plus spécifiquement, elle visait à décrire les carences nutritionnelles, les facteurs de risque cardiométabolique (FRCM), et la typologie du double fardeau de la malnutrition; examiner les caractéristiques du mode de vie des adultes et leurs liens avec le double fardeau de la malnutrition selon les conditions économique, et enfin d’examiner l’association entre inflammation subclinique, les carences nutritionnelles et les FRCM selon les facteurs du mode de vie. Ces objectifs faisaient suite à nos principales hypothèses qui stipulaient que : parmi les adultes de Ouagadougou, le phénotype de double fardeau de la malnutrition le plus fréquemment observé est l’association de surpoids/obésité avec une ou plusieurs carences nutritionnelles, surtout chez les femmes, puis qu’une alimentation de piètre qualité, en lien avec de mauvaises conditions socioéconomiques et de vie est associée tant aux FRCM qu’aux carences nutritionnelles, contribuant ainsi au double fardeau de malnutrition, et enfin qu’un état d’inflammation subclinique joue un rôle de médiateur entre le mode de vie et aussi bien les carences nutritionnelles que les FRCM. Afin de répondre à ces objectifs, une étude transversale descriptive et analytique a été conduite auprès d’un échantillon aléatoire de 330 adultes âgés de 25 à 60 ans recrutés au sein de l’Observatoire de Population de Ouagadougou, situé à la partie nord de la ville. Cet échantillon a été subdivisé en terciles du score de possessions matérielles, proxy du statut socioéconomique, avec 110 personnes respectivement dans chaque strate de niveau socioéconomique bas, moyen et élevé. Chaque participant a fourni des données sociodémographiques, anthropométriques, cliniques et comportementales; il a aussi fourni un échantillon de sang. Les principales variables de l’étude étaient les suivantes : l’âge, les conditions socioéconomiques (insécurité alimentaire, éducation et proxy du revenu), le mode de vie (les apports alimentaires et la qualité de l’alimentation, l’activité physique, la consommation d’alcool et de tabac, la perception de l’image corporelle, le stress psychosocial); l’inflammation subclinique; les FRCM [surpoids/obésité, tension artérielle élevée (TAE) ou hypertension artérielle (HTA), hyperglycémie, dyslipidémie et insulino-résistance]; les carences nutritionnelles (maigreur, anémie, carence en fer et en vitamine A). Des phénotypes de double fardeau de la malnutrition ont été identifiés en combinant FRCM et carences nutritionnelles. Les résultats ont montré une prévalence élevée de surpoids/obésité, d’obésité abdominale, d’hypertension artérielle, d’hyperglycémie, de résistance à l’insuline et du taux de lipoprotéine de haute densité (HDL-C) bas, respectivement de 24,2 %, 12,5 %, 21,9 %, 22,3 %, 25,1 % et 30,0 %. En utilisant les seuils plus sensibles de la Fédération Internationale du Diabète (FID), l’obésité abdominale, la tension artérielle élevée (TAE), l’hyperglycémie était respectivement de 23,5 %; 36,1 % et 34,5 %. Des carences nutritionnelles étaient également présentes, l’anémie, la carence en fer et en vitamine A, ainsi que la maigreur atteignant respectivement 25,5 %, 15,4 %, 12,7 % et 9,7 % de la population étudiée. Les femmes étaient significativement plus touchées que les hommes autant par les FRCM que par les carences nutritionnelles. Le double fardeau de la malnutrition touchait 23,5 % des personnes et même 25,8 % avec les seuils de la FID pour l’obésité abdominale, la TAE, et l’hyperglycémie. Les deux principaux phénotypes observés étaient : l’association de « surpoids/obésité avec au moins une carence en micronutriment », touchant 7,8 % (11,8 % ♀ vs. 3,4 % ♂) des personnes et l’association d’au moins un FRCM autre que le surpoids/obésité avec au moins une carence en micronutriment, qui touchait 9.0 % (12,4 % ♀ vs. 5,4 % ♂) des personnes. La prévalence de ces phénotypes était plus élevée en utilisant les seuils de la FID plutôt que les seuils de l’OMS. Près de 72,9 % des personnes ou 81,2 % (seuils de la FID) avaient au moins un FRCM. Nous avons identifié à partir de l’analyse typologique, deux schémas alimentaires; « urbain » et « traditionnel », dans cette étude. Les carences nutritionnelles étaient davantage associées au schéma alimentaire « traditionnel », alors que les FRCM se retrouvaient dans les deux schémas alimentaires. Le schéma « urbain » regroupait significativement plus d’hommes et de personnes de niveau socioéconomique élevé, alors que les personnes de niveau socioéconomique bas et les femmes étaient proportionnellement plus nombreuses dans le schéma « traditionnel ». Le temps dévolu aux activités sédentaires était significativement plus important que celui consacré aux activités d’intensité modérée à vigoureuse. L’activité physique était inversement associée à l’indice de masse corporelle (IMC), au tour de taille (TT), à la masse grasse corporelle, à la tension artérielle systolique (TAS) et diastolique (TAD), à la triglycéridémie et au taux de lipoprotéine de faible densité (LDL-C). L’IMC et le TT augmentaient en outre avec le temps de sédentarité. Ainsi, le double fardeau de malnutrition était associé au statut socioéconomique bas, au sexe féminin et à la sédentarité. Nous avons aussi trouvé que 39,4 % des personnes avaient une inflammation subclinique qui était associée de façon indépendante et positive à la ferritinémie, à l’IMC, au TT et à la masse grasse corporelle, et négativement au HDL-C. L’exploration du stress psychosocial et de l’image corporelle a révélé une association entre le stress psychosocial, l’HTA et une perception positive de l’embonpoint. Les personnes ayant peut-être accusé un retard de croissance à l’enfance (d’après l’indice de Cormic) étaient significativement plus touchées par le surpoids/obésité, l’obésité abdominale et la résistance à l’insuline. Ces résultats nous ont permis d’atteindre nos objectifs, mais aussi de vérifier nos hypothèses de recherche. Comme on peut le constater, les FRCM sont une réalité à Ouagadougou, qui se compliquent par leur coexistence avec des carences en micronutriments dont la prévalence est tout aussi importante. Une transition nutritionnelle est en cours dans cette ville et contribue au bouleversement des comportements alimentaires et du style de vie favorisant l’émergence de ce double fardeau, dans un contexte où le passé nutritionnel de la population offre des conditions idéales pour un niveau de risque particulièrement élevé pour ces FRCM. Cependant, l’évolution de cette prévalence pourrait être inversée ou tout au moins ralentie si des actions étaient entreprises dès maintenant. / This study is a part of a project on the double burden of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, developed and implemented by TRANSNUT, a WHO collaborating centre on nutrition changes and development, of the Department of Nutrition, Université de Montréal, in collaboration with its partners in Burkina Faso (Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé and Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population). The study is among the first to focus on the double burden of malnutrition in French speaking Africa and aimed to describe the occurrence of the double burden among adults living in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, by determining its prevalence and to what extent it was related to life style factors. More specifically, the study aimed to: 1) describe nutrition deficiencies, cardio-metabolic risk factors (CMRF) and double burden phenotypes, to 2) examine the relationship between lifestyle characteristics and the double burden of malnutrition, and finally, 3) to examine the relationship between subclinical inflammation and both CMRF and nutrition deficiencies. We hypothesised that: ‘among the adults of Ouagadougou, the more frequent phenotype of double burden of malnutrition is the association of overweight/obesity with at least one micronutrient deficiency, which is more prevalent in women’; ‘an inadequate quality of the diet related to poor socioeconomic and living conditions is associated to both CMRF and micronutrients deficiencies’ and finally, that ‘subclinical inflammation is a mediator variable between lifestyle and both CMRF and nutrition deficiencies’. We carried out a population based cross-sectional study, descriptive and analytical, with a random sample of 330 adults aged 25-60y, selected from the population observatory of Ouagadougou located in the northern district. This sample was stratified in three income groups using household assets as a proxy of socioeconomic status, with 110 subjects in the following three income strata: low, middle and high. Each subject provided sociodemographic, anthropometric, clinical and lifestyle data and a blood sample for the assessment of the following study variables: age, and socioeconomic conditions (food insecurity, education and income); lifestyle factors (dietary intake and diet quality, physical activity, alcohol and tobacco consumption, body image perception, and psychosocial stress); subclinical inflammation; CMRF (overweight/obesity, high blood pressure or hypertension, hyperglycaemia, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance); nutritional deficiency markers ( underweight, anaemia, iron and vitamin A deficiencies); the double burden of malnutrition phenotypes featured by combining CMRF with nutrition deficiencies factors. We reported a high prevalence of overweight/obesity, abdominal obesity, hypertension, hyperglycaemia, insulin resistance and low concentration of high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), which was 24.2%, 12.5%, 21.9%, 22.3%, 25.1%, and 30.0% respectively. When using International Diabetes Federation (IDF) cut-offs for abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, and hyperglycaemia, their prevalence were 23.5%, 36.1%, and 34.5% respectively. Anaemia, iron and vitamin A deficiencies and underweight were found in 25.5%, 15.4%, 12.7%, and 9.7% of subjects, respectively. Women were more affected by both CMRF and deficiencies than men. When combining CMRF and deficiencies within the same individual, the double burden of malnutrition was reported in 23.5% of subjects and even in 25.8% of them when IDF cut-offs for abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, and hyperglycaemia were used. Two main phenotypes were reported: the co-occurrence of ‘overweight/obesity with at least one micronutrient deficiency’, with a prevalence rate of 7.8% (11.8 % ♀ vs. 3.4 % ♂); and the co-occurrence of ‘CMRF other than overweight/obesity with at least one micronutrient deficiency’, with a prevalence rate of 9.0% (12.4 % ♀ vs. 5.4 % ♂). This prevalences was higher when using IDF cut-offs instead of WHO cut-offs. Finally, 72.9% of the subjects exhibited at least one CMRF and even 81.2% of the subjects when using IDF cut-offs. We also identified in this study population two dietary patterns: “urban” and “traditional”. Nutritional deficiencies were associated with ‘traditional’ dietary pattern, whereas CMRF were found in both patterns without statistical difference. The “urban” dietary pattern was significantly more common in men, high income subjects, whereas low income subjects and women were significantly more numerous in the ‘traditional’ one. Time devoted to sedentary activities was significantly higher than time spent in moderate to vigorous activities. Time in moderate to vigorous activities was significantly and negatively associated with body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and body fat mass, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), triglyceridemia, and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), while BMI and WC were associated to sedentary time. The double burden of malnutrition was associated to low income status, women, and sedentary time. We reported that 39.4% of the subjects exhibited subclinical inflammation, which was independently and positively associated with serum ferritin, BMI, WC, body fat mass, and negatively to HDL-C. Body image evaluation revealed that overweight was perceived as desirable body image among the study subjects. Psychosocial stress was associated with hypertension and subjects who probably faced stunting during infancy (using Cormic Index) exhibited significantly higher prevalence of overweight/obesity, abdominal obesity and insulin resistance. The results allowed us to achieve the study objectives and confirm our hypotheses. CMRF represents an overwhelming issue in adults of Ouagadougou complicated with their coexistence with nutritional deficiencies, also highly prevalent. A nutrition transition is at play in the city, contributing to lifestyle changes favorable to the double burden of malnutrition in such a context where the early life nutritional conditions of the subjects may put them at further enhancement of CMRF. The progression of this prevalence can still be averted or at least be slowed if suitable actions were taken from now.