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Intestinal parasitic infection as an associated risk factor for severe acute malnutrition in rural children in age group 6m-5 yrs of Raipur district: A case control study

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Background: Malnutrition is a major public health problem in India, particularly in Chhattisgarh State with 18.9% under five children being wasted. Various factors like maternal nutrition, lack of sanitation and recurrent infection including parasitic ...
Pranab Kumar Das, Tushar Bharat Jagzape, Archana Wankhede, Anil Kumar Goel   +3 more
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An Epidemiological Study to Evaluate the Occurrence of Anaemia in Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and its Influence on the Results of Nutritional Rehabilitation

Aim: To investigate the prevalence of anaemia among severely acute malnourished (SAM) children and its impact on the outcomes of nutritional rehabilitation in a tertiary care centre. Material and Methods: This study was done in the department of Pediatrics, NMCH, Jamuhar, Sasaram, Bihar, India for 12 months.The detection of children with SAM was ...
Mamta Kumari, A. K. Chaudhary, Monika Singh, Tanmay Mandale   +3 more
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PS‐SAM: A Mixed Methods Study to Understand Current Practice and the Facilitators and Barriers to the Utilisation of Psycho‐Social Stimulation Interventions in Severe Acute Malnutrition

Maternal & Child Nutrition
ABSTRACT Psycho‐social stimulation interventions, recommended in the WHO guidelines for severe acute malnutrition (SAM), have been demonstrated to improve neurodevelopment and growth. However, interventions which have proven effective in clinical trials are resource‐intensive and may be challenging in many contexts.
Mike Kalmus Eliasz, Dolce Advani, Melissa Gladstone   +2 more
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Safety, Tolerability, Efficacy and Logistics of Administration of Three Types of Therapeutic Feeds to Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) [PDF]

International Journal Of Nutrition, 2018
Sujata Saunik, Mrudula Phadke, Raji Nair, Jatin Khosla, Tarun Patel, Venkataraman R., Singal V.   +6 more
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Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM): A Vicious Socio-Economic Problem in South India

Pediatrics Education and Research, 2020
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A Cross-Sectional Assessment Of Serum Levels Of Calcium (Ca), Sodium (Na) And Potassium (K) In The Sam (Severe Acute Malnutrition) Children

, 2018
Objective: We aimed this research to assess the serum levels of calcium (Ca), potassium (K) and sodium (Na) in SAM cases and also compared their association in the absence and presence of diarrhoea. Methods and material: Our cross-sectional research was carried out at Services Hospital, Lahore from March 2016 to July 2017.
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Implementing a programme to treat severe acute malnutrition in Indonesia: What works? [PDF]

Asia Pac J Clin Nutr
Fauzi MD, van der Hoeven M, Soekarjo DD, Noor R, Nurlinawati I, Wieringa FT, Giriwono PE.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Time to recovery and its predictors among children aged 6 to 59 months with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition treated in outpatient therapeutic programs in Adet Woreda, Central Zone of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: A retrospective cohort study. [PDF]

PLoS One
Abrha A, Hintsa S, Dagnazgi EA, Fisshatsion F, Girmay G.   +4 more
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Intravenous rehydration in children with severe malnutrition and severe dehydration: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

Arch Dis Child
Dewez JE, Ouattara SM, Sunyoto T, Mogaka CK, Coldiron ME, Sainna HA, Petrucci R, George EC, Maitland K.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Association between anthropometric criteria and body composition among children aged 6-59 months with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: A prospective cohort study from South Sudan. [PDF]

PLoS One
Rossi G, Creighton RM, Ayebazibwe P, Garang S, Kamruzzaman M, Park T, Beck N, Dyment W.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source