Severe Acute Malnutrition
"Severe Acute Malnutrition" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Acute form of MALNUTRITION which usually affects children, characterized by a very low weight for height (below -3z scores of the median World Health Organization standards), visible severe wasting, or occurrence of nutritional EDEMA. It can be a direct or indirect cause of fatality in children suffering from DIARRHEA and PNEUMONIA. Do not confuse with starvation, a condition in which the body is not getting enough food, usually for extended periods of time.
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D000067011
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C18.654.521.719
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| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Severe Acute Malnutrition" by people in Profiles.
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Severe COVID-19 in an Infant with Severe Acute Malnutrition. Indian J Pediatr. 2021 11; 88(11):1158.
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The rationale for a multi-step therapeutic approach based on antivirals, drugs and nutrients with immunomodulatory activity in patients with coronavirus-SARS2-induced disease of different severities. Br J Nutr. 2021 02 14; 125(3):275-293.
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A meta-analysis of inpatient treatment outcomes of severe acute malnutrition and predictors of mortality among under-five children in Ethiopia. BMC Public Health. 2019 Aug 27; 19(1):1175.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Malnourished: Severe Acute Malnutrition Remains a Neglected Tropical Disease. J Trop Pediatr. 2018 06 01; 64(3):169-173.
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Evaluation of outpatient therapeutic programme (OTP) for treatment of severe acute malnutrition in Yemen: a focus on treatment default and its risk factors. J Eval Clin Pract. 2017 Dec; 23(6):1361-1366.
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Tuberculosis caseload in children with severe acute malnutrition related with high hospital based mortality in Lusaka, Zambia. BMC Res Notes. 2017 Jun 12; 10(1):206.