Effectiveness of milk whey protein-based ready-to-use therapeutic food in treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Malawian under-5 children: A randomised, double-blind, controlled non-inferiority clinical trial

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 436-451

  Bahwere, Paluku ^a,b   Banda, Theresa ^a   Sadler, Kate ^a   Nyirenda, Gertrude ^a   Owino, Victor ^c   Shaba, Bina ^a   Dibari, Filippo ^a   Collins, Steve ^a  

^a VALID INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c Valid Nutrition   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Community based; Malnutrition; Randomised controlled trial; Therapeutic feeding; Undernutrition; Whey protein

Indexed keywords

MILK PROTEIN; WHEY PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DIET THERAPY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FOOD; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION; WEIGHT GAIN; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELEMENTAL DIET; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAST FOOD; INFANT; MILK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA;

ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FAST FOODS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOD, FORMULATED; HUMANS; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALAWI; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84902549695     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.12112     Document Type: Article

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