Childhood severe acute malnutrition is associated with metabolic changes in adulthood
BACKGROUND Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a major contributor to global mortality in children under 5 years. Mortality has decreased; however, the long-term cardiometabolic consequences of SAM and its subtypes, severe wasting (SW) and edematous malnutrition (EM), are not well understood. We eval...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Clinical investigation
2020-12-01
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| Series: | JCI Insight |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.141316 |