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Review
. 2010 Dec;10(6):624-7.
doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.10-6-624.

Malnutrition: causes and consequences

John Saunders  1 , Trevor Smith
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Review

Malnutrition: causes and consequences

John Saunders et al. Clin Med (Lond). 2010 Dec.
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Fig 1.
The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) BMI = body mass index. Reproduced with kind pemission of BAPEN.
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