Moderate acute malnutrition
A multicenter, randomized controlled comparison of three renutrition strategies for the management of moderate acute malnutrition among children aged from 6 to 24 months (the MALINEA project)
... Child malnutrition is a major public health problem in in- tertropical zones, but most of the resources and studies focus on SAM due to its life-threatening ...chronic malnutrition that can lead to ...
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Comparative study and impact on nutritional status, dietary practices of normal and moderate acute malnutrition children under 24 months in Niger: case of mayahi county
... Thus, a quantitative survey based on a questionnaire was carried out in two groups of 75 At the end of this study, it appears that the practice and mode of breastfeeding are identical in both groups (P> 0.05). There ...
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Impact of effective counselling on management of moderate acute malnutrition in a community
... For this non-randomized trial two adjacent communities located on outskirts of city of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India were selected. To define Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) standard definition ...
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Children with moderate acute malnutrition have inflammation not explained by maternal reports of illness and clinical symptoms: a cross-sectional study in Burkina Faso
... Third, we have shown that, although morbidity was largely independent of admission criteria, a positive RDT not accompanied by fever was more common among children admitted based on MUAC only and, in contrast, lower ...
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Prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition in humanitarian emergencies: a multi-organisation collaboration to increase access to synthesised evidence
... of acute malnutrition; CTP: Cash transfer programmes; HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus; IASC: Inter-Agency Standing Committee; IMAM: Integrated management of acute malnutrition; IYCF: Infant ...
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... (chronic malnutrition), wasting (acute malnutrition) and deficiencies of micronutrients (essential vitamins and ...minerals). Acute malnutrition, or wasting, is defined using ...
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... of malnutrition in Africa with an estimated prevalence of 42% of children being underweight ...of malnutrition (undernutrition) are acute and chronic malnutrition, iron deficiency anaemia, ...
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Evaluation of the Quality of Hospital Based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Children under 5 in Benin
... The results concerning knowledge and skills in the SAM management are dif- ferent from those obtained by Testa et al. in their study [11]. In their study, 2 out of 19 health professionals were skilled and aware of the 3 ...
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... of acute malnutrition has been described by WHO as a “community approach” that involves “timely detection of severe acute malnutrition in the community and provision of treatment for those ...
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Prevalence of Malaria among Malnutrition Under-five Children Admitted in Nutrition Centers in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, South Sudan
... of malnutrition (mild, moderate and severe) like done in this study which compared the prevalence of malaria between moderately acute malnutrition and severe acute ...with ...
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Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) performance versus weight for height in South African children (0–59 months) with acute malnutrition
... severe acute malnutrition (n = 4), moderate acute malnutrition (n = 5) and mild malnutrition (n = 7) by W/H measure compared to MUAC was greater in children younger than one year ...
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Weight Gain in Malnourished Children after 5 Months Food Supplementation in a Slum Setting in Bangladesh
... both acute malnutrition (wasting) and chronic malnutrition (stunting) [3] ...of malnutrition in Bangladesh is around twice more than that in Sub-Saharan Africa ...treat malnutrition of ...
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Efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine in relation to drug exposure in children with and without severe acute malnutrition: an open comparative intervention study in Mali and Niger
... October), acute malnu- trition increases among young children [20, ...global acute malnutrition in the Koulikoro region of Mali (Aug–Sep 2012) and Maradi region of Niger (Jun–Aug 2012) were ...
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Prevalence of malnutrition, acute respiratory infections and diarrhoea in children aged 1-5 years in urban slums of Puducherry, South India
... Under-nutrition is a wide spread form of malnutrition in developing countries and is the major factor in childhood mortality and morbidity. 1 With rapid urbanisation, about one fourth of the urban population in ...
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Clinico-epidemiological profile of acute respiratory infections and malnutrition in urban and rural population of central India
... of malnutrition in children less than 3 years of age in the ...Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) or Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) was ...
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Outcome of Standardized Case Management of Under-5 Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition in Three Hospitals of Dhaka City in Bangladesh
... severe malnutrition had given emphasis on the ten steps to recovery describing initial phase of stabilization followed by rehabilitation phase and follow up ...
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Prevalence of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Children Aged 6 -60 Months Admitted at Mother of Christ Specialist Hospital Ogui, Enugu, Nigeria
... severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6 - 60 months in mother of Christ hospital Ogui Enugu was ...severe acute malnutrition, to determine the risk factors for severe acute ...
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The "ComPAS Trial" combined treatment model for acute malnutrition: study protocol for the economic evaluation
... Background: Acute malnutrition is currently divided into severe (SAM) and moderate (MAM) based on level of ...uncomplicated acute malnutrition compared to the current standard protocol ...
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Prevalence and outcome of stress hyperglycaemia among severely malnourished children admitted to Mulago referral and teaching hospital in Kampala, Uganda
... the acute phase of illness, it is an adaptive mechanism to improve chances of survival but as it persists longer with stressful events, it is associated with increased risk of mortality ...severe acute ...
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Malnutrition Reduces Quality of Life and Performance in Hospitalized Elderly
... define malnutrition vary greatly amongst the studies; here we used MNA [18], and confirmed the data obtained using anthropometric measurements, biochemical parameters and dietary intake questionnaire in a cohort ...
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