Child wasting and concurrent stunting in low- and middle-income countries

Mertens, Andrew; Benjamin-Chung, Jade; M. Colford, John; E. Hubbard, Alan; J. van der Laan, Mark; Coyle, Jeremy; Sofrygin, Oleg; Cai, Wilson; Jilek, Wendy; Rosete, Sonali; Nguyen, Anna; N. Pokpongkiat, Nolan; Djajadi, Stephanie; Seth, Anmol; Jung, Esther; O. Chung, Esther; Malenica, Ivana; Hejazi, Nima; Li, Haodong; Hafen, Ryan; Subramoney, Vishak; Häggström, Jonas; Norman, Thea; Christian, Parul; H. Brown, Kenneth; F. Arnold, Benjamin; Ki Child Growth Consortium, The; Ahmed, Tahmeed; Ali, Asad; Begín, France; Obong Bessong, Pascal; A. Bhutta, Zulfiqar; E. Black, Robert; Bodhidatta, Ladaporn; Checkley, William; E. Crabtree, Jean; Das, Rina; Das, Subhasish; P. Duggan, Christopher; Syed Golam Faruque, Abu; W. Fawzi, Wafaie; Quirino da Silva Filho, José; H. Gilman, Robert; L. Guerrant, Richard; Haque, Rashidul; R. Houpt, Eric; Talat Iqbal, Najeeha; John, Jacob; Matthew John, Sushil; Kang, Gagandeep; Kosek, Margaret; Ângelo Moreira Lima, Aldo; Cloupas Mahopo, Tjale; S. Manandhar, Dharma; P. Manji, Karim; Mduma, Estomih; Raghava Mohan, Venkata; E. Moore, Sophie; Emanuel Nyathi, Mzwakhe; Paredes Olortegui, Maribel; A. Petri, William; Samuel Premkumar, Prasanna; M. Prentice, Andrew; Rahman, Najeeb; Sadiq, Kamran; Sarkar, Rajiv; M. Saville, Naomi; P. Shrestha, Bhim; Kumar Shrestha, Sanjaya; Sonko, Bakary; Svensen, Erling; Syed, Sana; Umrani, Fayaz; D. Ward, Honorine; Penataro Yori, Pablo

doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06480-z

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Child wasting and concurrent stunting in low- and middle-income countries

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Andrew Mertens

Jade Benjamin-Chung

John M. Colford

Abstract

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 standard deviations below the median of the World Health Organization standards for child growth 1 . Prevailing methods to me...

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