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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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Carer and staff perspectives on supplementary suckling for treating infant malnutrition: qualitative findings from Malawi. [PDF]

, 2013
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in infants aged
Lelijveld, Natasha, Kerac, Marko, Lelijveld, N, Kerac, M, Mahebere-Chirambo, Chawanangwa, Mahebere-Chirambo, C   +5 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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Effect of nutrition survey 'cleaning criteria' on estimates of malnutrition prevalence and disease burden: secondary data analysis. [PDF]

, 2014
Tackling childhood malnutrition is a global health priority. A key indicator is the estimated prevalence of malnutrition, measured by nutrition surveys. Most aspects of survey design are standardised, but data 'cleaning criteria' are not.
Kerac, Marko, Andrew Seal, Grijalva-Eternod, C, Kerac, M, Seal, A, Seal, Andrew, Grijalva-Eternod, Carlos, Marko Kerac, Sonya Crowe, Crowe, S, Carlos Grijalva-Eternod, Crowe, Sonya   +11 more
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Acute malnutrition among under-five children in Faryab, Afghanistan: prevalence and causes [PDF]

, 2016
2016-02Acute malnutrition affects more than 50 million under-five (U5) children, causing 8.0% of global child deaths annually. The prevalence of acute malnutrition (wasting) among U5 children in Afghanistan was 9.5% nationally and 3.7% in Faryab province
Hamajima, Nobuyuki, Reyer, Joshua A., Dalil, Suraya, Abdullah, Darman Rahimzad, Yamamoto, Eiko, Muhammad, Kamel Frozanfar, Yoshida, Yoshitoku   +6 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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Screening for Acute Malnutrition Using Family Mid-Upper Arm Circumference in Somali Region of Ethiopia [PDF]

International Journal of Nutrition Sciences, 2022
Background: In spite of the decentralization of diagnosis and treatment of severe acute malnutrition from the strictly hospital-based approach for all cases to community-based approach, only about 10%-15% of the estimated 16.5 million children suffering ...
Olusola Oladeji, Paul Mudzongo, Rashid Abdulai, Abdi Fekdid Mursel, Mohamed Badel Ali, Bashir Sheik Mohammed   +5 more
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Operational implications of using 2006 World Health Organization growth standards in nutrition programmes: secondary data analysis [PDF]

, 2007
Objective: To assess the implications of adopting the World Health Organization 2006 growth standards in combination with current diagnostic criteria in emergency and non-emergency child feeding programmes.
Kerac, Marko, Andrew Seal, Seal, Andrew, Kerac, M., Marko Kerac, Seal, A.   +5 more
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Interpretation of World Health Organization growth charts for assessing infant malnutrition: a randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

, 2013
AIMS: The study aims to assess the effects of switching from National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) growth references to World Health Organization (WHO) growth standards on health-care workers' decisions about malnutrition in infants aged
Chisepo, Patrick, Kerac, Marko, Heikens, Geert T, Ahmad, Umar N, Yiwombe, Mwawi, Cole, Tim J   +5 more
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Pelvic Floor Dysfunction in People with Eating Disorders and the Acute Effect of Different Interventions – A Retrospective Cohort Study

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology
Background: Studies suggest that there is an association between eating disorders and pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD), although the contribution of PFD toward symptomatology and interventions to improve these symptoms in the eating disorder population is ...
Monica Williams, Dan Blalock, Marina Foster, Philip S. Mehler, Dennis Gibson   +4 more
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