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World Health Organization’s Growth Reference Overestimates the Prevalence of Severe Malnutrition in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia in Africa
Anthropometric indices are widely used to assess the health and nutritional status of children. We tested the hypothesis that the 2007 World Health Organization (WHO) reference for assessment of malnutrition in children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) overestimates the prevalence of severe malnutritio...
Autores principales: | Ghafuri, Djamila L., Abdullahi, Shehu U., Jibir, Binta W., Gambo, Safiya, Bello-Manga, Halima, Haliru, Lawal, Bulama, Khadija, Usman, Fahd M., Gambo, Awwal, Aliyu, Muktar H., Greene, Brittany C., Kassim, Adetola A., Slaughter, Chris, Rodeghier, Mark, DeBaun, Michael R. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7020064/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31906442 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9010119 |
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