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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Moderate acute malnutrition"”.
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Moderate Acute Malnutrition: Inflammatory Response, Microbiota, and Potential Treatments
Acute malnutrition is directly or indirectly responsible for nearly half of all deaths in children under five. Even when treatment is provided in a timely manner, some children fail to recover and others relapse within months. Recovery has traditionally been measured by anthropometric scores, but …
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Analysis of Child Undernutrition Intervention Priorities Among Nutrition Stakeholders from Multiple Low and Middle-Income Countries
… and preventing severe wasting through treating moderate acute malnutrition (MAM); this makes estimating pooled effectiveness on wasting difficult. There is clear overlap and there needs to be a better understanding how program makers and policy makers understand these interventions. Methods: 2 …
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Is the inclusion of animal source foods in fortified blended food justified?
… are used for the prevention and treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) in nutritionally vulnerable individuals, particularly children. A recent review of current FBF recommended the addition of animal source food (ASF), in the form of whey protein concentrate (WPC), to FBF, especially …
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Factors affecting the rehabilitation outcome (of outpatient therapeutic program) of children with severe acute malnutrition in Durame, Southern Ethiopia
Background: Malnutrition accounted high level of childhood morbidity and mortality in Ethiopia including Durame area. Durame area is one of the food insecure districts in Southern region. As a result of high prevlanece of acute malnutrtion, which is 8.3%, Ministry of Health partnering with World …
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The double burden of malnutrition in South Africa: risk factors for undernutrition and overnutrition and the development of a novel mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) screening tool in children
… has produced recommendations for screening for malnutrition in childhood. However, evidence is emerging that the performance of these tools is region-specific. The aim of this set of six studies were to identify contextual factors which contribute to childhood malnutrition and assess the …