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What is Understanding Severe Acute Malnutrition about?

This document discusses severe acute malnutrition. Key points include: - Severe acute malnutrition is a form of undernutrition characterized by wasting or the presence of nutritional edema. - According to Ethiopian health surveys from 2011, 44% of children under 5 are stunted, 10% are wasted, and 29% are underweight. - Causes include poverty, ignorance, poor sanitation, infections, low quality diets, droughts and wars. Malnutrition is most common in infants and young children. - Physiologically, the

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