Objective: To understand which anthropometric diagnostic criteria best discriminate higher
from lower risk of death in children and explore programme implications. Design: A multiple …

Acute malnutrition, or wasting, is implicated in over half of all deaths in children under five
and increases risk of infectious disease. Studies in humans and preclinical models have …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that severe wasting and/or oedema
should be treated with ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) at a dose of 150–220 …

Abstract Sustainable Development Goal 2.2—to end malnutrition by 2030—includes the
elimination of child wasting, defined as a weight-for-length z-score that is more than two …

Background Children with severe acute malnutrition are treated with antibiotics as
outpatients. We aimed to determine the effect of 7 days of amoxicillin on acute and long-term …

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among children in Nigeria is tackled through the outpatient
therapeutic programme (OTP) of the Community‐based Management of Acute Malnutrition …

Introduction Severe and moderate acute malnutrition (SAM and MAM) affect more than 50
million children worldwide yet 80% of these children do not access care. The Combined …

Background Current standard management of severe acute malnutrition uses ready-to-use
therapeutic food (RUTF) at a single weight-based calculation resulting in an increasing …

After recovery, children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) remain vulnerable to sub-
optimal growth and malnutrition relapse. Although there is an increased interest in …

Nutritional recovery and hospital readmission following inpatient management of
complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are poorly characterised. We aimed to …