Table 1.

Interpretation of the four types of dietary and anthropometric failures

	Anthropometric failure	No anthropometric failure
	Both failures (BF)	Dietary failure only (DFO)
Dietary failure	• Low intake of key nutrients	• May have low intake of nutrients with little impact on body size
	• May have high nutritional losses	• Overlooked by anthropometric indicators of undernutrition
	• Highest amount of unmet nutritional need	Nutrition-specific intervention may be most needed (eg, providing supplemental food)
	Anthropometric failure only (AFO)	Neither failure (NF)
No dietary failure	• May have high nutritional losses and/or low intake of key nutrients or calories, resulting in anthropometric failure despite meeting dietary standards • Nutrition-sensitive intervention may be most needed (eg, sanitation)	• Lowest amount of unmet nutritional need