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Acute Malnutrition and Under-5 Mortality, Northeastern Part of India. [PDF]

, 2010
We assessed the prevalence of childhood acute malnutrition and under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in Darbhanga district, India, using a two-stage 49-cluster household survey. A total of 1379 households comprising 8473 people were interviewed.
Boss, C. Roure Pujol, E. Espie, Gupta, J.-F. Saint-Sauveur, Lahariya, M. Masferrer, P. P. Palma Urrutia, R. F. Grais, Yadav, Yadav   +10 more
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Viewpoints from the national consultation on addressing acute malnutrition on mainstreaming community-based program for management of acute malnutrition in India

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2023
High burden of acute malnutrition among children less than 5 years is a major public health problem in India. A ”Two-days National Consultation on Addressing Acute Malnutrition” was organized to gather experiences and evidence from 13 states of India on ...
Praveen Kumar, Rajesh K Sinha, Srishti Arora, Rakesh Sarwal, Farida Sultana, Abner Daniel, Raja Sriswan, Arun M Kokane, Asha K Kiran, Anil K Goel, R L Suman, Anil K Jaiswal, Sanjay Prabhu, Anju Seth, Avula Laxmaiya, Ashok K Rawat, Bivash Modi, Rinky Thakur, Arjan de Wagt   +18 more
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Improvised Peritoneal Dialysis in an 18-month-old Child with Severe Acute Malnutrition (kwashiorkor) and Acute kidney Injury: A Case Report. [PDF]

, 2013
Severe acute malnutrition is common in developing countries. Children with severe acute malnutrition are prone to complications, including electrolyte imbalance and infections.
Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH), UNICEF, World Health Organization, Francis Fredrick, Gudila Valentine, H Bachou, HM Mahgoub, IC Anochie, JG Callegari, KD Phadke, PN Obiagwu, PW Kandoth, S Walters, SP Andreoli, V Strazdins   +12 more
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Factors Influencing Outcomes of Children Hospitalized with Acute Severe Malnutrition

Althea Medical Journal, 2018
Background: Nutrition is still a global health issue, and improving nutrition is among the targets of the Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDGs). One of Indonesia’s SDGs indicators is to reduce prevalence of malnutrition in children.
Viramitha Kusnandi Rusmil, Siska Wiramihardja, Adhitya AP, Dida A Gurnida   +3 more
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Percent Fat Mass Increases with Recovery, But Does Not Vary According to Dietary Therapy in Young Malian Children Treated for Moderate Acute Malnutrition. [PDF]

, 2019
BackgroundModerate acute malnutrition (MAM) affects 34.1 million children globally. Treatment effectiveness is generally determined by the amount and rate of weight gain.
Ackatia-Armah, Arsenault, Bahwere, Black, Boutton, Brown, Brozek, Butte, Butte, Christine M McDonald, Christopher P Duggan, de Onis, Dicko, Fabiansen, Fabiansen, Fjeld, Fomon, Global Nutrition Cluster: MAM Task Force, Golden, Golden, Kabir, Kenneth H Brown, Ministère de la Santé République du Mali, National Agricultural Library, Radhakrishna, Robert S Ackatia-Armah, Roland Kupka, Seydou Doumbia, Skau, UNICEF, UNICEF, UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Group, Wells, WHO, WHO/UNICEF   +34 more
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Association between anthropometric criteria and body composition among children aged 6–59 months with severe acute malnutrition: a cross-sectional assessment from India

BMC Nutrition, 2022
A multicentric study is being conducted in which children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) aged 6–59 months are identified with only weight-for-height z-score (WHZ) 
Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Praveen Kumar, Abner Daniel, Hemang Shah, Raja Sriswan, Arun Kokane, Aditya Mohapatra, Vivek Kashyap, Anil Kumar Goel, Virendra Kumar, Asha Kiran, N. Arlappa, Ankur Joshi, Rashmi Ranjan Nayak, Shikha Sayal, Arjan de Wagt   +15 more
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Retrospective Assessment of Malnutrition Among Under-five Children in Ayder Referral Hospital, Tigray Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2015
Currently worldwide there are about 60 million children with moderate acute and 13 million with severe acute malnutrition. About 9% of sub-Saharan African and 15%of south Asian children have moderate acute malnutrition and about 2% of children in ...
Gultie, T. (Teklemariam), Mebrahtu, D. (Desta), Sebsibie, G. (Girum)   +2 more
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Clinico-biochemical profile of sick children with severe acute malnutrition

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Objective: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) classified as edematous and marasmus, however, Kwashiorker represents the most severe phenotype of edematous malnutrition.
Dhilip Kumar, Sunil Kumar Rao, Tej Bali Singh   +2 more
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Antibiotics as part of the management of severe acute malnutrition [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Severe acute malnutrition contributes to 1 million deaths among children annually. Adding routine antibiotic agents to nutritional therapy may increase recovery rates and decrease mortality among children with severe acute malnutrition ...
Goldbach, Hayley S, LaGrone, Lacey N, Maleta, Kenneth M, Manary, Mark J, Meuli, Guthrie J, Trehan, Indi, Wang, Richard J   +6 more
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Lipid-based nutrient supplements: how can they combat child malnutrition? [PDF]

, 2012
Kathryn Dewey and Mary Arimond discuss new research in PLOS Medicine that assesses the effect of blanket provision of ready-to-use supplementary food to children at high risk of malnutrition in Chad, and highlight some of the challenges of investigating ...
Arimond, Mary, Dewey, Kathryn G
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