Malnutrition and the Family: Deprivation in Kwashiorkor
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Malnutrition and the family: deprivation in kwashiorkor.
The background to social and emotional deprivation is discussed and applied to a study of kwashiorkor in East African children. A group of 107 children with kwashiorkor was compared with 111 controls. Age, sex and tribe were all found to have significances of their own: fifty of each group were therefore matched for these three factors. Ten other factors were found to be significant in the bac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0029-6651,1475-2719
DOI: 10.1079/pns19790005