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Optimal anthropometric discharge criteria from treatment of wasting: meta-analysis of individual patient data from 34 studies

Bliznashka L, Chaudhary S, Rattigan SM, Isanaka S, Adah R,  et al.
2025-12-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2025-12-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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Community-based treatment of acute malnutrition saves lives, but recovered children remain at risk of relapse postdischarge. Strategies to reduce thi...

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Reply to R Dasgupta et al

Burza S, Mahajan R, Marino E, Sunyoto T, Matthew P,  et al.
2015-11-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2015-11-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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Outpatient treatment of severe acute malnutrition: response to treatment with a reduced schedule of therapeutic food distribution

Isanaka S, Kodish SR, Berthé F, Alley I, Nackers F,  et al.
2017-04-12 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2017-04-12 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
BACKGROUND
Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has been shown to be safe and cost-effective, but program coverage remains low. Treatment models that maintai...

Low and deficient niacin status and pellagra are endemic in postwar Angola

Seal AJ, Creeke PI, Dibari F, Cheung E, Kyroussis E,  et al.
2007-01-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2007-01-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
BACKGROUND
Outbreaks of pellagra were documented during the civil war in Angola, but no contemporary data on the incidence of pellagra or the prevalence of niacin deficiency were ava...

Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in India: new evidence from Bihar

Burza S, Mahajan R, Marino E, Sunyoto T, Shandilya C,  et al.
2015-02-25 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2015-02-25 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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An estimated one-third of the world's children who are wasted live in India. In Bihar state, of children <5 y old, 27.1% are wasted and 8.3% have severe acute malnutrition...

Short children with a low midupper arm circumference respond to food supplementation: an observational study from Burkina Faso

Fabiansen C, Phelan KPQ, Cichon B, Ritz C, Briend A,  et al.
2016-01-06 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2016-01-06 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
BACKGROUND
The management of children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) is based on food supplementation in outpatient programs. When midupper arm circumference (MUAC) is used a...

Correlates of serum IGF-1 in young children with moderate acute malnutrition: a cross-sectional study in Burkina Faso

Kjaer TW, Grenov B, Yameogo CW, Fabiansen C, Iuel-Brockdorf AS,  et al.
2021-09-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2021-09-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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Serum insulin-like growth factor 1 (sIGF-1) is an important growth factor in childhood. However, studies on sIGF-1 among children from low-income countries are few, a...

Selenium and iodine supplementation of rural tibetan children affected by Kashin-Beck osteoarthropathy

Reyes R, Mathieu F, Boelaert M, Begaux F, Suetens C,  et al.
2003-07-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2003-07-01 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
BACKGROUND
Kashin-Beck disease is an osteoarthropathy endemic in selenium- and iodine-deficient areas around Lhasa, Tibet.

OBJECTIVE
We assessed the efficacy of seleniu...

Prenatal supplementation with multiple micronutrient supplements or medium-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements has limited effects on child growth up to 24 months in rural Niger: a secondary analysis of a cluster randomized trial

Bliznashka L, Sudfeld CR, Garba S, Guindo O, Soumana I,  et al.
2021-12-06 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2021-12-06 • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
BACKGROUND
Prenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS) and lipid-based nutrient supplementation (LNS) can improve birth outcomes relative to iron-folic acid supplementation...