| mortality risk among children admitted in a large-scale nutritional program in niger, 2006. | in 2006, the médecins sans frontières nutritional program in the region of maradi (niger) included 68,001 children 6-59 months of age with either moderate or severe malnutrition, according to the nchs reference (weight-for-height<80% of the nchs median, and/or mid-upper arm circumference<110 mm for children taller than 65 cm and/or presence of bipedal edema). our objective was to identify baseline risk factors for death among children diagnosed with severe malnutrition using the newly introduced ... | 2009 | 19177169 |