Mid-upper arm circumference in detection of weight-for-height Z-score below-3 in children aged 6-59 months

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 1794-1799

  Kapil, Umesh ^a   Pandey, R M ^a   Bansal, Rahul ^b   Pant, Bhavana ^b   Varshney, Amit Mohan ^b   Yadav, Chander Prakash ^a   Sinha, Shikha ^c   Sareen, Neha ^a   Sachdev, Harshpal Singh ^c  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b SUBHARTI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c SITARAM BHARTIA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

cut offs; Mid upper arm circumference; Severe acute malnutrition; Severe wasting; Under 5 children

Indexed keywords

ARM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE;

ARM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 85053325297     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980017004165     Document Type: Article

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