{
  "abstract": "More than two-thirds of wasted children worldwide have moderate wasting, accounting for no less than 30 million children at any given time in 2024, most of whom reside in South Asia, SouthEast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. 1 This population of infants and children 6–59 months old is defined by having a mid-upper-arm circumference (a measure of lean body mass) between 115 and less than 125 mm and/or a weight-for-height between 2 and 3 SDs below the median defined by the 2006 WHO Child Growth Standards.2 While those with moderate wasting have a significantly lower mortality rate than those with severe wasting or nutritional oedema, their much larger population means that they still account for approximately 30%–40% of the deaths due to wasting.3",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Departments of Pediatrics, Global Health, and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Indi Trehan"
    },
    {
      "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": [
        "Department of Health Sciences, Macquarie University Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Bindi Borg"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Nutrition Center of the Philippines, Muntinlupa City, Philippines"
      ],
      "name": "Mary Christine Castro"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Concern Worldwide, Dublin, Ireland"
      ],
      "name": "Kate Golden"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica"
      ],
      "name": "Debbie S Thompson"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa"
      ],
      "name": "Michael McCaul"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa"
      ],
      "name": "Celeste E Naude"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Jaden Bendabenda"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Kirrily de Polnay"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Zita Weise Prinzo"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Consultant to the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Allison I Daniel"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Infants and children 6–59 months of age with moderate wasting: evidence gaps identified during WHO guideline development",
  "uid": "d69b031e-082b-5dc9-9779-60eb47540dcd"
}