WHO standards predict death in malnourished children more accurately than other measurements
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 09:01
in Psychology & Sociology
A study comparing measurements used to assess malnutrition in young children in Niger has found that the new World Health Organisation (WHO) Child Growth Standards - introduced in 2006 - are accurate predictors of death of these children following their admissions for malnutrition. The study, published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, compared the new WHO standards with those of the US National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS), which have long been used as an international reference...