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Diagnostic criteria for severe acute malnutrition among infants aged under 6 mo(1)(2)(3)

Background: There is an increasing recognition of malnutrition among infants under 6 mo of age (U6M). Current diagnosis criteria use weight-for-length z scores (WLZs), but the 2006 WHO standards exclude infants shorter than 45 cm. In older children, midupper arm circumference (MUAC) predicts mortali...

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Publié dans:Am J Clin Nutr
Auteurs principaux: Mwangome, Martha, Ngari, Moses, Fegan, Greg, Mturi, Neema, Shebe, Mohammed, Bauni, Evasius, Berkley, James A
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: American Society for Nutrition 2017
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445677/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28424189
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.116.149815
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