Acute malnutrition affects more than 50 million children worldwide. These children are at an
increased risk of morbidity and mortality from infectious disease. However, the pathogenesis …

Summary Background Children in Africa carry a disproportionate burden of malnutrition and
infectious disease. Together, malnutrition and infection are major contributors to global child …

Background Morbidity plays an important role in the development of and recovery from
malnutrition. Morbidity in children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) has not been …

Children admitted to hospital with an acute illness and concurrent severe malnutrition
[complicated severe malnutrition (CSM)] have a high risk of dying. The biological processes …

Factors associated with acute malnutrition are complex and wide‐ranging particularly in
developing countries. In Mozambique, contextual factors associated to children acute …

Background: Diarrhea affects a large proportion of children with severe acute malnutrition
(SAM). However, its etiology and clinical consequences remain unclear. Objective: We …

Background Severe acute malnutrition is a serious public health problem, and a challenge
to clinicians. Why some children with malnutrition develop oedema (kwashiorkor) is not well …

Objective: Children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) may have impaired intestinal
function, which can result in malabsorption, diarrhoea, and poor growth. This study …

Background Millions of the world's children suffer from malnutrition, which predisposes to
death from diarrhea and a variety of infectious diseases. Mortality rates among infants and …

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is the most life-threatening form of undernutrition and
underlies at least 10% of all deaths among children younger than 5 years in low-income …