How age and sex affect treatment outcomes for children with severe malnutrition: A multi‐country secondary data analysis

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Thurstans, Susan | Opondo, Charles | Bailey, Jeanette | Stobaugh, Heather | Loddo, Fabrizio | Wrottesley, Stephanie, V | Seal, Andy | Myatt, Mark | Briend, André | Garenne, Michel | Mertens, Andrew | Wells, Jonathan | Sear, Rebecca | Kerac, Marko

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International audience. Age and sex influence the risk of childhood wasting. We aimed to determine if wasting treatment outcomes differ by age and sex in children under 5 years, enroled in therapeutic and supplementary feeding programmes. Utilising data from stage 1 of the ComPAS trial, we used logistic regression to assess the association between age, sex and wasting treatment outcomes (recovery, death, default, non-response, and transfer), modelling the likelihood of recovery versus all other outcomes. We used linear regression to calculate differences in mean length of stay (LOS) and mean daily weight gain by age and sex. Data from 6929 children from Kenya, Chad, Yemen

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