{
  "abstract": "Wasting describes a condition where a child is dangerously thin for their height, typically due to sudden and severe weight loss. It greatly raises the risk of death but can be effectively treated. In 2024, an estimated 42.8 million infants and children under 5 years of age were affected by wasting at any given time, and, of these, 12.2 million were severely wasted. 1 Nutritional oedema is not captured in these estimates, yet there are likely hundreds of thousands of children with this form of malnutrition.2 3",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica"
      ],
      "name": "Debbie S Thompson"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Pediatrics, Lady Hardinge Medical College & Associated Hospitals, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg, New Delhi, India"
      ],
      "name": "Praveen Kumar"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Pediatric Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Aden, Aden, Yemen",
        "Pediatric Department, Al-Sadaqa Teaching Hospital, Aden, Yemen"
      ],
      "name": "Aida Alsadeeq"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Independent Consultant, Islamabad, Pakistan"
      ],
      "name": "Rozina Khalid"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Emergency Nutrition Network, Kidlington, UK",
        "Institute of Health and Society, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium"
      ],
      "name": "Hedwig Deconinck"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya",
        "Centre for Tropcial Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, UK"
      ],
      "name": "James A Berkley"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada",
        "Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Robert H J Bandsma"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Emergency Nutrition Network, Kidlington, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Nicky Dent"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Departments of Pediatrics, Global Health, and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Indi Trehan"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Population Health, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK",
        "Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, and Reproductive Child Health (MARCH), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Marko Kerac"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Division Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa"
      ],
      "name": "Celeste E Naude"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Consultant to the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Allison I Daniel"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Infants and children 6–59 months of age with severe wasting and/or nutritional oedema: evidence gaps identified during WHO guideline development",
  "uid": "ba7d1016-31d0-5b0b-8cef-e5c502e56369"
}