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Prevalence of malnutrition among pre-school children in, South-east Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Malnutrition can be defined as a state of nutrition where the weight for age, height for age and weight for height indices are below -2 Z-score of the NCHS reference. It has posed a great economic burden to the developing world. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to assess the pr...

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Autores principales:	Manyike, Pius C, Chinawa, Josephat M, Ubesie, Agozie, Obu, Herbert A, Odetunde, Odutola I, Chinawa, Awoere T
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2014
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25209154 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-014-0075-5

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