Table 5.
Average length of stay, weight gain, mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) gain and average ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) consumption in recovered children treated with the Optimising treatment for acute MAlnutrition (OptiMA) protocol, Yako district, Burkina Faso, 2017
(Mean values and standard deviations; medians and interquartile ranges (IQR))
| MUAC at admission | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall (n 4279) | <115 and oedema (n 580) | 115–119 (n 900) | 120–124 (n 2799) | |||||||||
| Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | |||||
| Average time to recovery (week) | 5·8 | 2·5 | 8·1 | 3·4 | 6·5 | 2·7 | 5·2 | 1·9 | ||||
| Average MUAC gain (mm) | 9·8 | 5·1 | 17·5 | 5·4 | 11·2 | 3·2 | 7·7 | 3·7 | ||||
| Average weight gain (g/kg per d) | 3·7 | 2·2 | 4·7 | 2·5 | 3·8 | 1·9 | 3·5 | 2·2 | ||||
| Average no. of RUTF | 58·9 | 24·9 | 86·4 | 34·4 | 66·1 | 24·4 | 50·9 | 16·7 | ||||
| Median no. of RUTF | 51 | 79 | 59 | 46 | ||||||||
| IQR | 42–68 | 63–104 | 49–76 | 40–57 | ||||||||
| Consumption (kcal/kg per d)* | 106 | 26·8 | 131·1 | 33·3 | 112 | 26·5 | 98·8 | 21·3 | ||||
* To convert kcal to kJ, multiply by 4·184.