Table 1.
Category definition of the determinant variables mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC; in mm) and weight-for-height Z-score (WHZ).
Table 2.
Cohort characteristics and anthropometric status for all children aged 6–59 months in the pooled analysis and for each original study separately.
Fig 1.
Proportion of children defined as SAM by MUAC-only (solid light grey area), WHZ-only (solid dark grey area) and both MUAC and WHZ (striped area) for (A) the combined data, (B) the DRC cohort, (C) the Senegal cohort, and (D) the Nepal cohort.
Fig 2.
Hazard ratios with 95% CI resulting from Cox proportional hazard regression models for all measurements in children aged 6–59 months combined.
The reference categories are ≥135 mm for MUAC; ≥-1 Z-scores for WHZ; and MUAC ≥115 and WHZ ≥-3 for the combination of indicators.
Fig 3.
Hazard ratios with 95% CI resulting from Cox proportional hazard regression models separately for each of the three original studies.
The reference categories are ≥135 mm for MUAC; ≥-1 Z-scores for WHZ; and MUAC ≥115 and WHZ ≥-3 for the combination of indicators.
Table 3.
Case fatality rate (CFR)a and hazard ratio (HR) resulting from Cox proportional hazard regression modelsb for all measurements in children aged 6–59 months combined.
Fig 4.
Hazard ratios with 95% CI resulting from Cox proportional hazard regression models according to age group.
The reference categories are ≥135 mm for MUAC; ≥-1 Z-scores for WHZ; and MUAC ≥115 and WHZ ≥-3 for the combination of indicators.
Table 4.
Comparison of the proportions of children with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) and Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) obtained from modern randomly selected community surveys and from the historical cohorts analyzed in the present study.