Malnutrition and health in developing countries.

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Published in CMAJ on August 02, 2005

Authors

Olaf Müller1, Michael Krawinkel

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany. olaf.mueller@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Associated clinical trials:

Biomedical Investigations for Optimized Diagnosis and Monitoring of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM): Elucidating the Heterogeneous Diagnosis of SAM by Current Anthropometric Criteria and Moving Beyond (OptiDiag) | NCT03400930

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