First Field Test of an Innovative, Wider Tape to Measure Mid-Upper Arm Circumference in Young Laotian Children
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Mid Upper Arm Circumference for age as a measure of undernutrition among underprivileged children in Delhi
MUAC is used as an indicator for assessing acute undernutrition among children below five years of age. WHO child growth standards (2006) have given age related z-scores for both boys and girls for MUAC for identification of acute undernutrition among children below five years. A total of 4737 observations for MUAC had been made on 2305 children below 6 years of age living in an urban slum of D...
متن کاملMid upper-arm circumference is an effective tool to identify infants and young children with severe acute malnutrition in India.
OBJECTIVE To assess the appropriateness of current mid upper-arm circumference (MUAC) cut-offs to identify children with severe acute malnutrition in India. DESIGN The analysis concerned 6307 children admitted to nutrition rehabilitation centres (2009-2011) where they received therapeutic care as per guidelines by WHO and the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. SETTING States of Jharkhand, Madhya...
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In 2011 we published a study on how to detect the threshold for malnutrition in children, simply using their own hands and without any technical tool. The fight against malnutrition can only be reached when its measurements involve every single child, almost continuously, in the affected villages. In this paper we try to show that, thanks to our method, it is possible to use mid-upper-arm-circu...
متن کاملMid-upper arm circumference (MUAC): new applications for an old measure.
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متن کامل[Assessment of mid-upper arm circumference as a method for obesity screening in preschool children].
OBJECTIVE To evaluate if mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) can be used for obesity screening in preschool children. METHODS 1,090 children aged from 12 to 59.99 months were studied. Personal information, weight, height and MUAC were obtained. Sensitivity and specificity to detect obese children were calculated for MUAC to age and MUAC to height z scores. Obesity was defined as weight to heig...
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عنوان ژورنال: Food and Nutrition Bulletin
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0379-5721,1564-8265
DOI: 10.1177/0379572117742502