0 weak and in bad health because of having too little food or too little of the types of food necessary for good health --
1 weak and in bad health because of a lack of food or a lack of food that is good for you: --
Upon arrival at the hospital, it is obvious that the patient is severely malnourished and dehydrated.
Also, the proportion of female children who fell into the severely malnourished category was larger than that of male children.
The proportion of malnourished children increased with the number of older surviving children.
Index children aged 12-23 months were much more likely to be malnourished than children aged less than 1 year.
Studies of school age children who were severely malnourished in infancy have focused on physical growth, intellectual functioning and perception, but have largely ignored behaviour.
In addition to having particular medical problems, previously institutionalized children are typically small and malnourished after the orphanage experience.
The 4 children who became clinically malnourished were all, at some period, at the lowest extremes in their weight gain.
The urgency of establishing a diagnosis to effect treatment is especially important in older patients, who are often malnourished and have concomitant chronic illnesses.
