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Anthropometry at birth and at age of routine vaccination to predict mortality in the first year of life: A birth cohort study in BukinaFaso

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization currently defines severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in infants aged under 6 months of age using weight-for-length Z score (WLZ). Given widespread use of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) for identifying SAM in older children and weight-for-age (WAZ) for growt...

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Autores principales: Mwangome, Martha, Ngari, Moses, Bwahere, Paluku, Kabore, Patrick, McGrath, Marie, Kerac, Marko, Berkley, James A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6438502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30921335
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213523