Invited Commentary: Improving Estimates of Severe Acute Malnutrition Requires More Data

Improving estimates of the burden of severe acute malnutrition and predictions of caseload for programs treating severe acute malnutrition: experiences from Nigeria

Background The burden of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is estimated using unadjusted prevalence estimates. SAM is an acute condition and many children with SAM will either recover or die within a few weeks. Estimating SAM burden using unadjusted prevalence estimates results in significant underestimation. This has a negative impact on allocation of resources for the prevention and treatment o...

Invited Review Treatment of Severe Malnutrition

More than 50% of deaths in children aged 0 to 4 years is associated with malnutrition, and high priority is therefore given to its prevention and treatment. Regrettably, hospital treatment of severely malnourished children is often poor and outmoded and consequently fatality rates are high. Data from 67 studies worldwide show that the median fatality rate has not changed for the past 5 decades,...

Invited Commentary Invited Commentary: Toward a More Comprehensive Social Epidemiology of Marital Trajectories and Mortality

In this issue of the Journal, Dupre et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2009;170(5):546–555) use data from a nationally representative cohort of older US adults to examine the association of current marital status, timing of first marriage, number and kind of transitions out of marriage, and durations spent in various marital statuses with the risk of all-cause mortality. Their study offers a wealth of emp...

Management of severe acute malnutrition.

Severe acute malnutrition in Asia.

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a common condition that kills children and intellectually maims those who survive. Close to 20 million children under the age of 5 years suffer from SAM globally, and about 1 million of them die each year. Much of this burden takes place in Asia. Six countries in Asia together have more than 12 million children suffering from SAM: 0.6 million in Afghanistan, 0...