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Mid upper arm circumference as a predictor of risk of mortality in children in a low resource setting in India.
| العنوان: | Mid upper arm circumference as a predictor of risk of mortality in children in a low resource setting in India. |
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| المؤلفون: | Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M K Bhan |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 6, p e0197832 (2018) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
| الوصف: | OBJECTIVE:In this secondary analysis of data from an intervention trial, we assessed the performance of Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) as a predictor of mortality in children aged 6-59 months from Delhi, India, one year after their initial MUAC measurements were taken. Additionally, we assessed MUAC as an absolute value and MUAC z-scores as predictors of risk of mortality. METHODS:In the trial, children were screened using MUAC prior to referral to the study clinic. These children were revisited a year later to ascertain their vital status. Baseline MUAC and MUAC z-scores were used to categorize children as severely (MUAC |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| Relation: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5983511?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0197832 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/75151eee6ec74b6a92db853d015bf1b4 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.75151eee6ec74b6a92db853d015bf1b4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 19326203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0197832 |