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Anthropometric assessment of children’s nutritional status: a new approach based on an adaptation of Waterlow’s classification

BACKGROUND: The methodology currently used for nutritional assessment of populations classifies children according to four conditions: eutrophy, wasting, stunting, and overweight. However, children can be stunted and wasted concomitantly. Similarly, they can be stunted and overweight. These conditio...

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Autor principal: Ferreira, Haroldo da Silva
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32046666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-1940-6