BACKGROUND World Health Organization now recommends the transition from F-75 to ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) in the management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM). We described the transition from F-75 to RUTF and identified correlates of failed transition. METHODS We conducted an observational study among children aged 6-59 months treated for SAM at Mulago hospital, Kampala, Uganda. ...

BACKGROUND Focusing on healthcare referral processes for children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in South Africa, this paper discusses the comprehensiveness of documents (global and national) that guide the country's SAM healthcare. This research is relevant because South African studies on SAM mostly examine the implementation of WHO guidelines in hospitals, making their technical releva...

We report on use of supplementary suckling technique in 62 infants [mean (SD) age 2.5 (1.3) mo] with severe acute malnutrition admitted at our Nutritional rehabilitation Center. It was successful in 34 (55.7%) infants.

In this double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, the authors randomly assigned children (age 6-59 mo) with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) to receive amoxicillin or placebo for 7 days. The primary outcome was nutritional recovery at or before week 8. A total of 2412 children were randomized, and 2399 children were included in the analysis. Nutritional recovery occurred in 65.9% of ...

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...

To evaluate nutritional status in adult patients with acute leukemia (AL) using patient-generated subjective global assessment (PG-SGA) and to investigate the influence of nutritional status on prognosis.We observationally investigated 68 adult patients with newly diagnosed AL who received PG-SGA at the First Hospital of Jilin University between May 2013 and July 2015. Clinical features, chemot...

Acute malnutrition, or wasting, represents a significant public health concern across lowand middle-income countries, affecting millions of children and significantly increasing their risk of death. Over a tenth of all under-five deaths can be attributed to acute malnutrition. There are a range of strategies that can prevent the development of wasting by modifying one or more of the risk factor...

The fourth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) conducted in 2015-16 provides an intriguing and disturbing trend on malnutrition in India. Over a ten year period since 2005-06, the proportion of under-five children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), as measured by Weight-for-height Z score (WHZ) <–3, based on the WHO standards has increased from an already high proportio...

BACKGROUND Acute malnutrition is an underlying factor in almost 50% of the 10 to 11 million children under 5 years of age who die each year of preventable causes. Inpatient treatment for severe acute malnutrition is associated with high opportunity and economic costs for affected families and health service providers. Community-based therapeutic care attempts to address these problems and to ma...

OBJECTIVE To understand how the World Health Organization's (WHO's) guidelines on the inpatient care of children with complicated severe acute malnutrition may be strengthened to improve outcomes. METHODS In December 2015, we searched Google scholar and WHO's website for WHO recommendations on severe acute malnutrition management and evaluated the history and cited evidence behind these recom...