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Protein-energy malnutrition(PEM)

About 60 to 70% of deaths in infant and children under the age of 5 are caused by diarrhea, pneumonia and immunizable diseases. Contributing to and underlying all of them is malnutrition. The magnitude of malnutrition in Asia and Middle East is shown inTable1 (2). Severe and moderate froms of PEM ranged from 20 [...]