# Biomedical Investigations for Optimized Diagnosis and Monitoring of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM): Elucidating the Heterogeneous Diagnosis of SAM by Current Anthropometric Criteria and Moving Beyond

> **NCT03400930** · — · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Action Contre la Faim** · enrollment: 473 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Severe Acute Malnutrition

## Interventions

- **OTHER:** Severe Acute Malnutrition

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT03400930
- **Lead sponsor:** Action Contre la Faim
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** —
- **Study type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2017-01-01
- **Primary completion:** 2018-04-25
- **Final completion:** 2018-04-25
- **Target enrollment:** 473 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2019-07-05

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## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03400930

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT03400930, "Biomedical Investigations for Optimized Diagnosis and Monitoring of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM): Elucidating the Heterogeneous Diagnosis of SAM by Current Anthropometric Criteria and Moving Beyond". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-03 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT03400930. Licensed CC0.

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