Linear growth following complicated severe malnutrition: 1-year follow-up cohort of Kenyan children

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 229-235

  Ngari, Moses M ^a,b   Iversen, Per Ole ^c,d,e   Thitiri, Johnstone ^a,b   Mwalekwa, Laura ^a   Timbwa, Molline ^a,b   Fegan, Greg W ^a,f   Berkley, James Alexander ^a,b,g  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition Network (CHAIN)   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^f SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

growth; height; malnutrition; stunting; undernutrition

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT GAIN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYAN; LINEAR GROWTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; OUTPATIENT; PARENT; PEDIATRIC WARD; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; BODY HEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; GROWTH DISORDER; KENYA; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BODY HEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROWTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; KENYA; MALE; SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION;

EID: 85054229145     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-315641     Document Type: Article

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