Epidemiologic evidence for a potentiating effect of malnutrition on child mortality.

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Published in Am J Public Health on August 01, 1993

Authors

D L Pelletier1, E A Frongillo, J P Habicht

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.

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