A ready-to-use therapeutic food containing 10% milk is less effective than one with 25% milk in the treatment of severely malnourished children

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2248-2252

  Oakley, Eleanor ^a   Reinking, Jason ^a   Sandige, Heidi ^a   Trehan, Indi ^a   Kennedy, Gregg ^a   Maleta, Kenneth ^b   Manary, Mark ^a,b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BIOTIN; CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; COPPER; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FAT; FOLIC ACID; IODINE; IRON; MAGNESIUM; NICOTINIC ACID; PANTOTHENIC ACID; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOMENADIONE; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN; PYRIDOXINE; RETINOL ACETATE; RIBOFLAVIN; SELENIUM; THIAMINE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EDEMA; ENERGY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD COMPOSITION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; MACRONUTRIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MILK; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READY TO USE THERAPEUTIC FOOD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION; SOYBEAN; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; MILK;

EID: 78649607113     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.110.123828     Document Type: Article

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