Ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) for home-based nutritional rehabilitation of severe acute malnutrition in children from six months to five years of age

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Volumn 2019, Issue 5, 2019, Pages

  Schoonees, Anel ^a   Lombard, Martani J ^b   Musekiwa, Alfred ^a   Nel, Etienne ^a   Volmink, Jimmy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BODY WEIGHT GAIN; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DETERIORATION; DIET THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOOD; HOME REHABILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READY TO USE THERAPEUTIC FOOD; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; ELEMENTAL DIET; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAST FOODS; FEMALE; FOOD, FORMULATED; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECURRENCE; SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 85065842958     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009000.pub3     Document Type: Review

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