Reliability of anthropometric measures in a longitudinal cohort of patients initiating ART in West Africa

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Anthropometric measurements are a non invasive, inexpensive, and suitable method for evaluating the nutritional status in population studies with relatively large sample sizes. However, anthropometric techniques are prone to errors t...

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Main Authors: Ag Aboubacrine Souleymane, Ledoux Marielle, Zunzunegui Maria-Victoria, Sicotte Maryline, Nguyen Vinh-Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-10-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/10/102