Relationship between mid upper arm circumference and weight changes in children aged 6-59 months

Archives of Public Health

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Binns, Paul ^a   Dale, Nancy ^b   Hoq, Monsurul ^c   Banda, Chrissy ^a   Myatt, Mark ^d  

^a VALID INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c Terre des hommes   (Bangladesh)

^d Alltgoch Uchaf Llawryglyn   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Severe acute malnutrition; CMAM; Community based management of acute malnutrition; Mid upper arm circumference; MUAC; MUAC gain; SAM; Weight gain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951060201     PISSN: 07787367     EISSN: 20493258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13690-015-0103-y     Document Type: Article

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