Protein Energy Malnutrition
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Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) is a spectrum of clinical conditions arising from a deficiency of energy, protein, or both, most commonly in under-five children. It ranges from mild growth faltering to the life-threatening extremes of marasmus, kwashiorkor, and marasmic-kwashiorkor. For NEET PG, the perennial favourites are the kwashiorkor–marasmus contrast, the WHO classification of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)…
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