Mortality and recovery following moderate and severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6-18 months in rural Jharkhand and Odisha, eastern India: A cohort study.

Mortality and recovery following moderate and severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6-18 months in rural Jharkhand and Odisha, eastern India: A cohort study.

<h4>Background</h4>Recent data suggest that case fatality from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in India may be lower than the 10%-20% estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO). A contemporary quantification of mortality and recovery from acute malnutrition in Indian community sett...

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Main Authors: Audrey Prost, Nirmala Nair, Andrew Copas, Hemanta Pradhan, Naomi Saville, Prasanta Tripathy, Rajkumar Gope, Shibanand Rath, Suchitra Rath, Jolene Skordis, Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Anthony Costello, Harshpal S Sachdev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-10-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002934&type=printable
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