Effect of Short-Term Supplementation with Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food or Micronutrients for Children after Illness for Prevention of Malnutrition: A Randomised Controlled Trial in Nigeria: e1001952

Effect of Short-Term Supplementation with Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food or Micronutrients for Children after Illness for Prevention of Malnutrition: A Randomised Controlled Trial in Nigeria: e1001952

Background Globally, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats more than 300,000 severely malnourished children annually. Malnutrition is not only caused by lack of food and poor infant and child feeding practices but also by illnesses. Breaking the vicious cycle of illness and malnutrition by providing...

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Veröffentlicht in:PLoS medicine 2016-02, Vol.13 (2)
Hauptverfasser: Kam, Saskia vander, Salse-Ubach, Nuria, Roll, Stephanie, Swarthout, Todd, Gayton-Toyoshima, Sayaka, Jiya, Nma Mohammed, Matsumoto, Akiko, Shanks, Leslie
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Sprache:eng
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Children & youth
Compliance
Confidence intervals
Dietary supplements
Food
Illnesses
Immune system
Infections
Integrated approach
Malnutrition
Medical research
Morbidity
Mortality
Population
Prevention
Researchers
Studies
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Zusammenfassung:Background Globally, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats more than 300,000 severely malnourished children annually. Malnutrition is not only caused by lack of food and poor infant and child feeding practices but also by illnesses. Breaking the vicious cycle of illness and malnutrition by providing ill children with nutritional supplementation is a potentially powerful strategy for preventing malnutrition that has not been adequately investigated. Therefore, MSF investigated whether incidence of malnutrition among ill children
ISSN:1549-1277
1549-1676
DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001952