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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, Isanaka, S, Shepherd, S, Villamor, E   +3 more
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Severe Acute Malnutrition in Asia

Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2014
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a common condition that kills children and intellectually maims those who survive. Close to 20 million children under the age of 5 years suffer from SAM globally, and about 1 million of them die each year. Much of this burden takes place in Asia.
Ahmed, Tahmeed, Hossain, Muttaquina, Mahfuz, Mustafa, Choudhury, Nuzhat, Hossain, Mir Mobarak, Bhandari, Nita, Lin, Maung Maung, Joshi, Prakash Chandra, Angdembe, Mirak Raj, Wickramasinghe, V. Pujitha, Hossain, S. M. Moazzem, Shahjahan, Mohammad, Irianto, Sugeng Eko, Soofi, Sajid, Bhutta, Zulfiqar   +14 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, Black, Defourny, F. Checchi, Garenne, Isanaka, MIETTINEN, R. F. Grais, S. Isanaka   +8 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, Ali, E, Allaouna, M, Delchevalerie, P, Draguez, B, Enarson, D A, Harries, A D, Manzi, M, Satyanarayana, S, Shams, Z, Van den Bergh, R, Vernaeve, L, Zachariah, R   +12 more
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Severe Acute Malnutrition: Impact and Prevention

Pharmaceutical and Biosciences Journal, 2021
The severe acute Malnutrition has been related with deficiency, poor diet and inadequate access to health care, and it remains as universal health issue that contributes to ill-health with 50% of childhood deaths due to underlying malnutrition. Bio fortification, probiotic foods and food process methods have shown the potential to beat the deficiency ...
null Bharti Vishwakarma, null Anjana Fellows   +1 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
doaj   +1 more source

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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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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AASLD practice guidance on drug, herbal, and dietary supplement–induced liver injury

, 2022
Hepatology, EarlyView.
Robert J. Fontana, Iris Liou, Adrian Reuben, Ayako Suzuki, M. Isabel Fiel, William Lee, Victor Navarro   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk factors for severe acute malnutrition among children aged 6–59 months: A community-based case-control study from Vellore, Southern India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Background: Malnutrition plays an important role in the economic burden of society as well as the country. This study aimed to identify the various risk factors and determinants of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) as defined by WHO growth reference ...
Sam M David, Ruby A Pricilla, Sherin S Paul, Kuryan George, Anuradha Bose, Jasmin H Prasad   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source