Absolute values or Z scores of mid-upper arm circumference to identify wasting? Evaluation in a community as well as a clinical sample of under fives from Nchelenge, Zambia

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-33

  Gernaat, Hajo B P E ^a   Dechering, Wim H J C ^b   Voorhoeve, Henk W A ^c  

^a Division Meppel   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Social and Tropical Paediatrics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; SCORING SYSTEM; ZAMBIA;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ZAMBIA;

EID: 0030053388     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/42.1.27     Document Type: Article

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