Does treatment of short or stunted children aged 6-59 months for severe acute malnutrition using ready to use therapeutic food make them overweight? Data from Malawi

Archives of Public Health

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Binns, Paul ^a   Myatt, Mark ^a  

^a Fford Celynin   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CMAM; MUAC; Overweight; RUTF; SAM; Stunting; Triceps skinfold thickness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85058804466     PISSN: 07787367     EISSN: 20493258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13690-018-0321-1     Document Type: Article

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