Management of acute moderate and severe childhood malnutrition [PDF]
BMJ, 2008 Acute childhood malnutrition affects about a tenth of the world’s children under 5 years of age, particularly those living in circumstances of extreme poverty in the developing world.1 2 Malnutrition is typically the result of an inadequate diet and is one of the most common diagnoses in children in health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa and south ...
Manary, Mark J, Sandige, Heidi L
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BMC Pediatrics, 2022 Background Although severe acute malnutrition is a major public issue among HIV infected children, there is no prior evidence in Ethiopia. Hence, this study aims to assess the time to develop severe acute malnutrition and its predictors among children ...
Ermias Sisay Chanie +13 more
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Assessing the impact of the introduction of the World Health Organization growth standards and weight-for-height z-score criterion on the response to treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children: Secondary data analysis [PDF]
, 2009 OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to assess the impact of adopting the World Health Organization growth standards and weight-for-height z-score criterion on the response to treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children compared with the use ...
Grais, R +3 more
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Journal of Clinical Sciences, 2020 Background: Acute malnutrition is broadly classified as severe acute malnutrition (SAM) or moderate acute malnutrition (MAM). It affects almost 20 million children worldwide, with majority of the cases in developing countries. In Africa, it was estimated
Ibrahim Aliyu +7 more
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Omitting edema measurement: how much acute malnutrition are we missing? [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Acute malnutrition is a major public health issue in low-income countries. It includes both wasting and edematous malnutrition, but the terms wasting and acute malnutrition are often used interchangeably.
Checchi, Francesco +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 +2 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) +2 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 +3 more
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Severe malnutrition in children presenting to health facilities in an urban slum in Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2012 SETTING: An urban slum in Kamrangirchar, Bangladesh. OBJECTIVES: Among children aged 6–59 months seeking medical care from the two Médecins Sans Frontières-supported primary health centres, to determine 1) the prevalence of severe acute malnutrition (SAM)
Alders, P +12 more
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Estimates of the duration of untreated acute malnutrition in children from Niger. [PDF]
, 2010 Expected incidence of acute malnutrition is the most appropriate measure for projecting the needs of a nutritional treatment program over time in terms of staffing, food, and other treatments, but direct estimation of incidence is rarely feasible at the ...
A. Briend +8 more
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