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- Title
Epidemiologic evidence for a potentiating effect of malnutrition on child mortality.
- Authors
Pelletier, D L; Frongillo, E A, Jr; Habicht, J P
- Abstract
Despite broad agreement that severe malnutrition contributes to child mortality in developing countries and that malnutrition has a physiologically synergistic relationship with morbidity, evidence of an epidemiologic synergism has been lacking. Also, the literature provides conflicting evidence concerning the existence of elevated mortality among children with mild to moderate malnutrition. A review of published population-based studies of anthropometry-mortality relationships was undertaken to clarify these relationships.
- Publication
American journal of public health, 1993, Vol 83, Issue 8, p1130
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2105/ajph.83.8.1130