Anthropometry at birth and at age of routine vaccination to predict mortality in the first year of life: a birth cohort study in BukinaFaso
<br/><strong>Background: </strong>The World Health Organization currently defines severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in infants aged under 6 months of age using weight-for-length Z score (WLZ). Given widespread use of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) for identifying SAM in older chi...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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