Journal article
Fraction of all hospital admissions and deaths attributable to malnutrition among children in rural Kenya
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Background: Malnutrition is common in the developing world and associated with disease and mortality. Because malnutrition frequently occurs among children in the community as well as those with acute illness, and because anthropometric indicators of nutritional status are continuous variables that preclude a single definition of malnutrition, malnutrition-attributable fractions of admissions and deaths cannot be calculated by simply enumerating individual children. Objective: We determined ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Journal website
- Volume:
- 88
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 1626-1631
- Publication date:
- 2008-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2008-08-15
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1938-3207
- ISSN:
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0002-9165
- Pmid:
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19064524
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:73393
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- pubs:73393
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73393
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- 2018-10-02
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- 2008
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