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Clinical Profile and outcome of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) Children admitted in Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre, City Hospital, Berhampur, Odisha

Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research, 2018
Bijay Kumar Panigrahi
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Interactions between fecal gut microbiome, enteric pathogens, and energy regulating hormones among acutely malnourished rural Gambian children

EBioMedicine, 2021
Background: The specific roles that gut microbiota, known pathogens, and host energy-regulating hormones play in the pathogenesis of non-edematous severe acute malnutrition (marasmus SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) during outpatient ...
Helen M. Nabwera, Josh L. Espinoza, Archibald Worwui, Modupeh Betts, Catherine Okoi, Abdul K. Sesay, Rowan Bancroft, Schadrac C. Agbla, Sheikh Jarju, Richard S. Bradbury, Mariama Colley, Amadou T. Jallow, Jie Liu, Eric R Houpt, Andrew M. Prentice, Martin Antonio, Robin M Bernstein, Christopher L. Dupont, Brenda A. Kwambana-Adams   +18 more
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Effectiveness of management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) through community health workers as compared to a traditional facility-based model: a cluster randomized controlled trial [PDF]

European Journal of Nutrition, 2021
We compared the impact of management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) by lady health workers (LHWs) at a community level with the standard CMAM program provided at the health facility.A two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial was conducted in a rural district in sindh Pakistan. The primary outcome was recovery from SAM and secondary outcomes were
Imtiaz Hussain, Atif Habib, Shabina Ariff, Gul Nawaz Khan, Arjumand Rizvi, Suhail Channar, Abid Hussain, Shahid Fazal, Deepak Kumar, Jose Luis Alvarez, Saul Guerrero, Angeline Grant, Sajid Bashir Soofi   +12 more
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Determinants of severe acute malnutrition among under five children in rural Enebsie Sarmidr District, East Gojjam Zone, North West Ethiopia, 2016

BMC Nutrition, 2018
Background Severe acute malnutrition is one of the major public health problems in developing countries having a devastating effect on the lives of many children under 5 years of age. In Ethiopia, there has been isolated studies conducted on malnutrition
Abate Awoke, Mulatu Ayana, Tenaw Gualu
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Optimal screening of children with acute malnutrition requires a change in current WHO guidelines as MUAC and WHZ identify different patient groups. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Timely treatment of acute malnutrition in children 500,000 deaths annually. Screening at community level is essential to identify children with malnutrition.
Arnaud Laillou, Sophonneary Prak, Richard de Groot, Sophie Whitney, Joel Conkle, Lindsey Horton, Sam Oeurn Un, Marjoleine A Dijkhuizen, Frank T Wieringa   +8 more
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Mapping the prevalence of severe acute malnutrition in Papua, Indonesia by using geostatistical models

BMC Nutrition, 2022
Background Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, and in 2019, approximately 14.3 million children under the age of 5 were considered to have SAM.
Paul Jasper, Warren C. Jochem, Emma Lambert-Porter, Umer Naeem, Chigozie Edson Utazi   +4 more
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Treatment Outcome of Severe Acute Malnutrition and Its Determinants among Pediatric Patients in West Ethiopia

International Journal of Pediatrics, 2018
Background. Malnutrition is a silent killer that is underreported, underaddressed, and as a result underprioritized. It is reported that severe acute malnutrition is the commonest reason for pediatrics hospital admission in many poor countries; 25 to 30%
Muluken Berhanu Mena, Mohammed Gebre Dedefo, Bruke Berhanu Billoro   +2 more
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Cardiac changes in children hospitalized with severe acute malnutrition: A prospective study at tertiary care center of northern India

Indian Heart Journal, 2019
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) may affect cardiac structure and function. Cardiac changes in sick children with SAM have received little attention in the literature.
Dharmendra Jain, Sunil Kumar Rao, Dhilip Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Bhupendra Kumar Sihag   +4 more
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Low-dose RUTF protocol and improved service delivery lead to good programme outcomes in the treatment of uncomplicated SAM: a programme report from Myanmar. [PDF]

, 2005
The treatment of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) requires substantial amounts of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF). In 2009, Action Contre la Faim anticipated a shortfall of RUTF for their nutrition programme in Myanmar.
James, Philip T, Van den Briel, Natalie, Rozet, Aurélie, Israël, Anne-Dominique, Fenn, Bridget, Navarro-Colorado, Carlos   +5 more
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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.
Saba Irshad Dr.Muhammad Adeel Zafar
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