Omitting edema measurement: how much acute malnutrition are we missing?

Acute malnutrition is a major public health issue in low-income countries. It includes both wasting and edematous malnutrition, but the terms wasting and acute malnutrition are often used interchangeably. Little is known about the burden of edematous malnutrition, and few large-scale surveys measure it.Most acute malnutrition might be captured by the measurement of wasting alone, but this is unknown. This article aims to fill this gap.This...