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Title: Maternal and child nutrition

Author
item BRIEND, ANDRE - University Of Tampere Medical School
item COLLINS, STEVE - Valid International
item GOLDEN, MICHAEL - University Of Aberdeen
item MANARY, MARK - Children'S Nutrition Research Center (CNRC)
item MYATT, MARK - Brixton Health

Submitted to: Lancet
Publication Type: Other
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/9/2013
Publication Date: 11/9/2013
Citation: Briend, A., Collins, S., Golden, M., Manary, M., Myatt, M. 2013. Maternal and child nutrition. Lancet. 382(9904):1549.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Researchers and clinicians have struggled to quantify the effects of malnutrition across populations. In this correspondence piece, the authors argue the need for studies examining the incidence of malnutrition rather than the population prevalence. The piece also touches on other social and political issues associated with the Lancet's series on maternal and child nutrition. Severe malnutrition has been reported as population prevalence; instead we suggest cases be calculated by incidence, to account for the deaths associated with this serious diagnosis.