Malnutrition and undernutrition

Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 524-529

  Shetty, Prakash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

body mass index (BMI); kwashiorkor; malnutrition; marasmic kwashiorkor; marasmus; overnutrition; undernutrition

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FOOD INTAKE; HAIR DISEASE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; KWASHIORKOR; MALNUTRITION; MARASMUS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; RECURRENT INFECTION; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SHORT STATURE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNDERWEIGHT;

EID: 33845353612     PISSN: 13573039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.mpmed.2006.09.014     Document Type: Review

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