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Omitting edema measurement: how much acute malnutrition are we missing?

Séverine FrisonFrancesco ChecchiMarko Kerac
Published in: The American journal of clinical nutrition (2015)
The terms acute malnutrition and wasting should not be used interchangeably. The omission of the measurement of edema can have important repercussions, especially at the nutrition program level.
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