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Infant malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries: assessment and prevalence of small and nutritionally at-risk infants aged under 6 months in 54 Demographic & Health Survey datasets

2021-12-23 nutrition Title + abstract only
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BackgroundThere is increasing global focus on malnutrition in infants aged under 6 months (u6m) but evidence on how best to identify and manage at-risk individuals is sparse. Our objectives were to: explore data quality of commonly used anthropometric indicators; describe prevalence and disease burden of infant u6m malnutrition; compare wasting and underweight as measures of malnutrition by determining the strength and consistency of associations with biologically plausible risk factors. Method...

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