Child mortality as predicted by nutritional status and recent weight velocity in children under two in rural Africa

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 520-525

  O'Neill, Sinéad M ^a   Fitzgerald, Anthony ^b   Briend, André ^c   Van den Broeck, Jan ^d  

^a Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RURAL AREA; SURVIVAL; VELOCITY;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RURAL POPULATION; WASTING SYNDROME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84858224475     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.111.151878     Document Type: Article

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