TY - JOUR AU - Asres, Degnet Teferi AU - Prasad, Reddy P. C. J. AU - Ayele, Tadesse Awoke PY - 2018 DA - 2018/04/10 TI - Recovery time and associated factors of severe acute malnutrition among children in Bahir Dar city, Northwest Ethiopia: an institution based retrospective cohort study JO - BMC Nutrition SP - 17 VL - 4 IS - 1 AB - Malnutrition commonly affects all groups in a community, but infants and young children are the most vulnerable. Worldwide, nearly 24 million under five children experience severe acute malnutrition (SAM) which contributes to one million child deaths yearly and 19 million severely wasted children are living in developing countries. While the treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is well established, achieving desired outcomes has proven to be challenging. There is limited evidence showing the success of treatments in the study area. Therefore, this study aimed to determine recovery time from severe acute malnutrition and identify predictors among children of 6–59 months of age. SN - 2055-0928 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40795-018-0224-0 DO - 10.1186/s40795-018-0224-0 ID - Asres2018 ER -