Current MUAC cut-offs to screen for acute malnutrition need to be adapted to gender and age: The example of Cambodia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Fiorentino, Marion ^a   Sophonneary, Prak ^b   Laillou, Arnaud ^c   Whitney, Sophie ^d   De Groot, Richard ^b   Perignon, Marlène ^a   Kuong, Khov ^e   Berger, Jacques ^a   Wieringa, Frank T ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b National Maternal and Child Health Center   (Cambodia)

^c UNICEF   (United States)

^d United Nations World Food Programme   (Cambodia)

^e Forestry and Fisheries   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MID UPPER ARMM CIRCUMFERENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; WASTING SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; MASS SCREENING; NUTRITION; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ARM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NUTRITION SURVEYS; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84959036591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146442     Document Type: Article

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