Validating the diagnostic performance of MUAC in screening moderate acute malnutrition and developing an optimal cut-off for under five children of different regions in Ethiopia

• Abera Lambebo ,

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

  * E-mail: lambebo70@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Public Health College of Health Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1580-0364

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• Yordanos Mezemir,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Debre Berhan Health Science College, Debre Berhan, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia

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• Dessalegn Tamiru,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Public Health, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Tefera Belachew

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Public Health, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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