Locally produced ready-to-use supplementary food is an effective treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in an operational setting

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-108

  Lagrone, L ^a   Cole, S ^a   Schondelmeyer, A ^a   Maleta, K ^b   Manary, M J ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT;

AFRICA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORN; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PEANUT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; SOYBEAN; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WASTING SYNDROME; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAST FOODS; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAWI; MALE; MALNUTRITION;

EID: 77952926423     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: 14653281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532810X12703901870651     Document Type: Article

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