Treatment of High-Risk Moderate Acute Malnutrition Using Expanded Admission Criteria

Summary

This project explores whether children have better growth and cognitive development when the clinic identifies "higher risk" MAM children and support them either with the same treatment as SAM children or with the recommended practice: nutrition counseling.

Timeline

Start

2018-11-13

Primary completion

2020-06-05

Completion

2020-06-05

Publications

• Background Joshua GE, Jadhav M, Bhaktaviziam A, Mokashi S. Mental retardation in children. II. Leucodystrophies. Indian Pediatr. 1974 Jan;11(1):53-9. No abstract available.
• Background Lenters LM, Wazny K, Webb P, Ahmed T, Bhutta ZA. Treatment of severe and moderate acute malnutrition in low- and middle-income settings: a systematic review, meta-analysis and Delphi process. BMC Public Health. 2013;13 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):S23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-S3-S23. Epub 2013 Sep 17.
• Background Chang CY, Trehan I, Wang RJ, Thakwalakwa C, Maleta K, Deitchler M, Manary MJ. Children successfully treated for moderate acute malnutrition remain at risk for malnutrition and death in the subsequent year after recovery. J Nutr. 2013 Feb;143(2):215-20. doi: 10.3945/jn.112.168047. Epub 2012 Dec 19.
• Background Maust A, Koroma AS, Abla C, Molokwu N, Ryan KN, Singh L, Manary MJ. Severe and Moderate Acute Malnutrition Can Be Successfully Managed with an Integrated Protocol in Sierra Leone. J Nutr. 2015 Nov;145(11):2604-9. doi: 10.3945/jn.115.214957. Epub 2015 Sep 30.
• Background Ekelund U, Ong KK, Linne Y, Neovius M, Brage S, Dunger DB, Wareham NJ, Rossner S. Association of weight gain in infancy and early childhood with metabolic risk in young adults. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2007 Jan;92(1):98-103. doi: 10.1210/jc.2006-1071. Epub 2006 Oct 10.
• Background Khara T, Mwangome M, Ngari M, Dolan C. Children concurrently wasted and stunted: A meta-analysis of prevalence data of children 6-59 months from 84 countries. Matern Child Nutr. 2018 Apr;14(2):e12516. doi: 10.1111/mcn.12516. Epub 2017 Sep 25.
• Background Schofield C, Ashworth A. Why have mortality rates for severe malnutrition remained so high? Bull World Health Organ. 1996;74(2):223-9.
• Lelijveld N, Godbout C, Krietemeyer D, Los A, Wegner D, Hendrixson DT, Bandsma R, Koroma A, Manary M. Treating high-risk moderate acute malnutrition using therapeutic food compared with nutrition counseling (Hi-MAM Study): a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Sep 1;114(3):955-964. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqab137.

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