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A Systematic Review on the Optimal Dose and Duration of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for 6–59-Month-Old Children with Severe Wasting or Oedema
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that severe wasting and/or oedema should be treated with ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) at a dose of 150–220 kcal/kg/day for 6–8 weeks. Emerging evidence suggests that variations of RUTF dosing regimens from the WHO recommendation are not inferior...
Autores principales: | Likoswe, Blessings H., Chimera-Khombe, Bernadette, Patson, Noel, Selemani, Apatsa, Potani, Isabel, Phuka, John, Maleta, Kenneth |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10096907/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37049590 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15071750 |
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