Assessment of malnutrition among adolescents: Can BMI be replaced by MUAC

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 276-279

  Dasgupta, Aparajita ^a   Butt, Arindam ^a   Saha, Tushar ^a   Basu, Gandhari ^a   Chattopadhyay, Amitava ^a   Mukherjee, Anindya ^a  

^a AIIH and PH ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Body mass index; middle upper arm circumference; sensitivity; specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955327103     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.66892     Document Type: Article

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