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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...
Autores principales: | Stephenson, Kevin B, Agapova, Sophia E, Hendrixson, D Taylor, Koroma, Aminata Shamit, Manary, Mark J |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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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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