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Comparison of estimates of under-nutrition for pre-school rural Pakistani children based on the WHO standard and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reference.

Rozina R Nuruddin, Meng Kin MK Lim, Wilbur C WC Hadden, and Iqbal I Azam

Public Health Nutr 12(5):716-22 (2009) PMID 18503722

To compare estimates of under-nutrition among pre-school Pakistani children using the WHO growth standard and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reference.

DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008002383
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