Trial reportArchives of disease in childhood2019
Linear growth following complicated severe malnutrition: 1-year follow-up cohort of Kenyan children.
Trial report in Archives of disease in childhood, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- The relationship between wasting and stunting in young children: A systematic review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of azithromycin on post-discharge growth in Kenyan children.BMJ global health · 2025Trial
- Linear Growth During Treatment With a Simplified, Combined Protocol: Secondary Analyses of Severely Wasted Children 6-59 Months in the ComPAS Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Trial
- Effects of probiotic and synbiotic supplementation on ponderal and linear growth in severely malnourished young infants in a randomized clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Inflammation impairs post-hospital discharge growth among children hospitalised with acute illness in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Impact of Stunting on Outcomes of Severely Wasted Children (6 Months to 5 Years) Admitted for Inpatient Treatment: A Cross-Sectional Study in an Ethiopian Referral Hospital.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Treatment heterogeneity of water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition interventions on child growth by environmental enteric dysfunction and pathogen status for young children in Bangladesh.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Wasting coexisting with underweight and stunting among children aged 6‒59 months hospitalised in Garissa County Referral Hospital, Kenya.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Predictive modelling of linear growth faltering among pediatric patients with Diarrhea in Rural Western Kenya: an explainable machine learning approach.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2024Article
- Systemic biological mechanisms underpin poor post-discharge growth among severely wasted children with HIV.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Childhood growth during recovery from acute illness in Africa and South Asia: a secondary analysis of the childhood acute illness and nutrition (CHAIN) prospective cohort.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Stunting in the first year of life: Pathway analysis of a birth cohort.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Factors associated with stunting in under-five children with environmental enteropathy in slum areas of Jimma town, Ethiopia.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Inflammation: the driver of poor outcomes among children with severe acute malnutrition?Nutrition reviews · 2023Review
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- Nutrition status and morbidity of Ethiopian children after recovery from severe acute malnutrition: Prospective matched cohort study.PloS one · 2022Article
- 100 days outcome of severe wasting in hospitalised infants <6 months of age.Public health nutrition · 2021Observational
- Weight-for-HeightCurrent developments in nutrition · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundStunting is the most common manifestation of childhood undernutrition worldwide. Children presenting with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are often also severely stunted. We evaluated linear growth and its determinants after medically complicated SAM.
methodsWe performed secondary analysis of clinical trial data
resultsAmong 1169 children with HAZ values at month 12 (66% of those in original trial), median (IQR) age 11 (7-17) months and mean (SD) HAZ -2.87 (1.6) at enrolment, there was no change in mean HAZ between enrolment and month 12: -0.006Z (95% CI -0.07 to 0.05Z). While 262 (23%) children experienced minimal HAZ change (within ±0.25 HAZ), 472 (40%) lost >0.25 and 435 (37%) gained >0.25 HAZ. After adjusting for regression to the mean, inpatient or outpatient episodes of diarrhoea and inpatient severe pneumonia during follow-up were associated with HAZ loss. Premature birth and not being cared by the biological parent were associated with HAZ gain. Increases in mid-upper arm circumference and weight-for-age were associated with HAZ gain and protected against HAZ loss. Increase in weight-for-height was not associated with HAZ gain but protected against HAZ loss. No threshold of weight gain preceding linear catch-up growth was observed.
conclusionsInterventions to improve dietary quality and prevent illness over a longer period may provide opportunities to improve linear growth.
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