ArticlePLOS global public health2023
Faster rehabilitation weight gain during childhood is associated with risk of non-communicable disease in adult survivors of severe acute malnutrition.
Article in PLOS global public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06792370 (Effectiveness of an Alternative Protocol in the Management of Acute Malnutrition in Children Aged 6-59 Months in Burkina Faso), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Effectiveness of an Alternative Protocol in the Management of Acute Malnutrition in Children Aged 6-59 Months in Burkina Faso: Reduced Dose of RUTF for SAM Children and RUTF Instead of RUSF for MAM Children
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- From Insult to Injury: Exploring the Associations Between Severe Malnutrition in Childhood, Rehabilitation Weight Gain and Adult Adiposity in a Prospective Cohort Study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Forty years later: adult health and non-communicable disease following the 1984-1985 Great Ethiopian Famine - a retrospective cohort study.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- Postmalnutrition weight gain is associated with changes to muscle and energy metabolism in adolescence: a cohort analysis.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Infants and children 6-59 months of age with severe wasting and/or nutritional oedema: evidence gaps identified during WHO guideline development.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Weight gain among children under five with severe malnutrition in therapeutic feeding programmes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
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- The recent WHO guideline on acute malnutrition overestimates therapeutic energy requirement.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2024Review
- Post-malnutrition growth and its associations with child survival and non-communicable disease risk: a secondary analysis of the Malawi 'ChroSAM' cohort.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
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15 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Nutritional rehabilitation during severe acute malnutrition (SAM) aims to quickly restore body size and minimize poor short-term outcomes. We hypothesized that faster weight gain during treatment is associated with greater cardiometabolic risk in adult life. Anthropometry, body composition (DEXA), blood pressure, blood glucose, insulin and lipids were measured in a cohort of adults who were hospitalized as children for SAM between 1963 and 1993. Weight and height measured during hospitalization and at one year post-recovery were abstracted from hospital records. Childhood weight gain during nutritional rehabilitation and weight and height gain one year post-recovery were analysed as continuous variables, quintiles and latent classes in age, sex and minimum weight-for-age z-scores-adjusted regression models against adult measurements. Data for 278 adult SAM survivors who had childhood admission records were analysed. Of these adults, 85 also had data collected 1 year post-hospitalisation. Sixty percent of participants were male, mean (SD) age was 28.2 (7.7) years, mean (SD) BMI was 23.6 (5.2) kg/m2. Mean admission age for SAM was 10.9 months (range 0.3-36.3 months), 77% were wasted (weight-for-height z-scores<-2). Mean rehabilitation weight gain (SD) was 10.1 (3.8) g/kg/day and 61.6 (25.3) g/day. Rehabilitation weight gain > 12.9 g/kg/day was associated with higher adult BMI (difference = 0.5 kg/m2, 95% CI: 0.1-0.9, p = 0.02), waist circumference (difference = 1.4 cm, 95% CI: 0.4-2.4, p = 0.005), fat mass (difference = 1.1 kg, 95% CI: 0.2-2, p = 0.02), fat mass index (difference = 0.32kg/m2, 95% CI: -0.0001-0.6, p = 0.05), and android fat mass (difference = 0.09 kg, 95% CI: 0.01-0.2, p = 0.03). Post-recovery weight gain (g/kg/month) was associated with lean mass (difference = 1.3 kg, 95% CI: 0.3-2.4, p = 0.015) and inversely associated with android-gynoid fat ratio (difference = -0.03, 95% CI: -0.07to-0.001 p = 0.045). Rehabilitation weight gain exceeding 13g/kg/day was associated with adult adiposity in young, normal-weight adult SAM survivors. This challenges existing guidelines for treating malnutrition and warrants further studies aiming at optimising these targets.
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