Midupper arm circumference outperforms weight-based measures of nutritional status in children with diarrhea

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 145, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1582-1587

  Modi, Payal ^a   Nasrin, Sabiha ^b   Hawes, Meagan ^c   Glavis Bloom, Justin ^a   Alam, Nur H ^b   Hossain, M Iqbal ^b   Levine, Adam C ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Diarrhea; Malnutrition; MUAC; Oral rehydration; Severe acute malnutrition; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDUPPER ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REHYDRATION; SCREENING; UNDERWEIGHT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARM; BANGLADESH; INFANT; MORPHOMETRICS; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION;

ARM; BANGLADESH; BODY WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; THINNESS;

EID: 84935475109     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.209718     Document Type: Article

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