Determinants of motor, language, cognitive, and global developmental delay in children with complicated severe acute malnutrition at the time of discharge: An observational study from Central India.

Determinants of motor, language, cognitive, and global developmental delay in children with complicated severe acute malnutrition at the time of discharge: An observational study from Central India.

BACKGROUND:Undernutrition leads to impaired psychosocial and cognitive development. This study explored the developmental status of children with complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and correlated it with various risk factors for SAM. METHODS AND FINDINGS:We recruited 100 children with SAM a...

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Main Authors: Navneet Khandelwal, Jagdish Mandliya, Kamna Nigam, Vandana Patil, Aditya Mathur, Ashish Pathak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233949

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