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The relationship between wasting and stunting in young children: A Systematic review
Abstract In 2014, the Emergency Nutrition Network published a report on the relationship between wasting and stunting. We aim to revie...
Bringing new evidence on undernutrition and mortality risk into practice- Protocol for a prospective cohort study
Introduction The ENN coordinated Wasting and Stunting Technical Interest Group (WaSt TIG) have been investigating the relationship bet...
The Wasting & Stunting Technical Interest Group: Generating Evidence to Challenge the Divide in Nutrition
Despite improvements in children's nutrition over the past few decades, undernutrition remains a huge threat to the health and life of ...
Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition
Excess male morbidity and morality is well recognised in neonatal medicine and infant health. In contrast, within global nutrition, it ...
Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition
Excess male morbidity and morality is well recognised in neonatal medicine and infant health. In contrast, within global nutrition, it ...
Prevention of child wasting: Results of a Child Health & Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) prioritisation exercise
On behalf of the wasting prevention Working Group Collaborators Background An estimated 49.5 million children under five years of age...
Wasting and stunting—similarities and differences: Policy and programmatic implications
Abstract Wasting and stunting are often presented as two separate forms of malnutrition requiring different interventions for preventi...
Improving screening for malnourished children at high risk of death: a study of children aged 6–59 months in rural Senegal
Abstract Objective: To investigate whether children with concurrent wasting and stunting require therapeutic feeding and to better und...
Concurrent wasting and stunting among under-five children in Niakhar, Senegal
Abstract The study describes the patterns of concurrent wasting and stunting (WaSt) among children age 6-59 months living in the 1980...