Mid upper arm circumference as a predictor of risk of mortality in children in a low resource setting in India

Sunita Taneja; Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola; Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan; Sarmila Mazumder; Nita Bhandari; Jasmine Kaur; Nikita Arya; Ranadip Chowdhury; Jose Carlos Martines; Rajiv Bahl; M. K. Bhan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197832

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Mid upper arm circumference as a predictor of risk of mortality in children in a low resource setting in India

Sunita Taneja ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M. K. Bhan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India
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Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M. K. Bhan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India
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Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M. K. Bhan

Roles Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India
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Sarmila Mazumder ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M. K. Bhan

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India
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Nita Bhandari ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M. K. Bhan

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India
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Jasmine Kaur ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M. K. Bhan

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India
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Nikita Arya ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M. K. Bhan

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India
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Ranadip Chowdhury ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M. K. Bhan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India
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Jose Carlos Martines ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M. K. Bhan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway
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Rajiv Bahl ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M. K. Bhan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
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M. K. Bhan

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunita Taneja, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Sarmila Mazumder, Nita Bhandari, Jasmine Kaur, Nikita Arya, Ranadip Chowdhury, Jose Carlos Martines, Rajiv Bahl, M. K. Bhan

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: rajkbhan@gmail.com

Affiliation Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1408-1310

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Mid upper arm circumference as a predictor of risk of mortality in children in a low resource setting in India

Sunita Taneja,
Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola,
Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan,
Sarmila Mazumder,
Nita Bhandari,
Jasmine Kaur,
Nikita Arya,
Ranadip Chowdhury,
Jose Carlos Martines,
Rajiv Bahl

Published: June 1, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197832

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