Fig 1.
Study flow diagram.
Table 1.
Characteristics of populations from the included trials.
Table 2.
Details of intervention.
Fig 2.
Review authors' judgements about each risk of bias item presented as percentages across all included studies.
Fig 3.
Review authors' judgements about each risk of bias item for each included study.
Fig 4.
Forest plot Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods Outcome: 1.5 Recovery from moderate acute malnutrition (ALL).
Table 3.
Summary of findings: Lipid-based nutritient supplements compared to Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods for treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in children (6 months to 59 months) with Moderate Acute Malnutrition.
Fig 5.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.3 Recovery from moderate acute malnutrition (SUBGROUP: by type of supplement).
Fig 6.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.6 Recovery from moderate acute malnutrition (SUBGROUP: Calories provided).
Fig 7.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.2 No recovery.
Fig 8.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.6 Mortality.
Fig 9.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.7 Post Discharge Mortality.
Fig 10.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.10 Deterioration to severe acute malnutrition.
Fig 11.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.11 transferred to Inpatient.
Fig 12.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.23 Relapse after discharge.
Table 4.
Summary of findings: Lipid-based nutrient supplements compared to Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods for treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in children (6 months to 59 months).
Fig 13.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.14 Weight Gain (g/kg/d) [g/kg/day].
Fig 14.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.15 Weight Gain Total [kg].
Fig 15.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.16 weight-for-height z-score End.
Fig 16.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.17 Weight-for-length z-score Gain.
Fig 17.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.18 Length Gain.
Fig 18.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.19 Length Gain (mm/d).
Fig 19.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.20 height-for-age z-score End.
Fig 20.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.21 mid-upper arm circumference Gain [cm].
Fig 21.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.22 Mid-upper arm circumference Gain (mm/day) [mm/day].
Fig 22.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.24 Default Rate.
Fig 23.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.25 Hemoglobin (Final).
Fig 24.
Forest plot: Lipid-based nutrient supplement versus Specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods, outcome: 1.26 Change in Hemoglobin [gm/dL].
Table 5.
Summary of findings: Lipid-based nutrient supplements compared to specially formulated micronutrient fortified foods for treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in children (6 months to 59 months) with moderate acute malnutrition.
Table 6.
Summary of findings: Lipid-based nutrient supplements compared to Counselling for treatment of children (6 months to 59 months) with moderate acute malnutrition.
Table 7.
Summary of findings: Lipid-based nutrient supplements compared to Counselling for treatment of children (6 months to 59 months) with moderate acute malnutrition.