An Optimized Dose of Therapeutic Feeding Results in Noninferior Growth in Midupper Arm Circumference Compared with a Standard Dose in Children in Sierra Leone Recovering from Acute Malnutrition

BACKGROUND: Ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) given at 175 kcal/kg per day throughout severe acute malnutrition (SAM) treatment is recommended. Some treatment programs have diverged from this paradigm in 2 ways: reducing the supplemental food dose to 75 kcal/kg per day when midupper arm circumfer...

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Autores principales: Stephenson, Kevin B, Agapova, Sophia E, Hendrixson, D Taylor, Koroma, Aminata Shamit, Manary, Mark J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7904386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33659773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzab007

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7904386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33659773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzab007

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