Assessment of Malnutrition Among Adolescents:Can BMI be Replaced by MUAC

OBJECTIVES: To find out the magnitude of malnutrition among the adolescents of an urban slum of Kolkata study population. To compare the middle upper arm circumference (MUAC) with that of body mass index (BMI) for determination of nutritional status of the study population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Th...

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Autores principales: Dasgupta, Aparajita, Butt, Arindam, Saha, Tushar Kanti, Basu, Gandhari, Chattopadhyay, Amitava, Mukherjee, Anindya
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2940185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20922106
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.66892

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2940185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20922106
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.66892

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