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The first site was Niakhar in Senegal, an area under demographic surveillance, where we followed a cohort of children in 1983\u20135. The second site was Bwamanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where we followed a cohort of children in 1989\u201392. Both studies enrolled about 5000 children, who were followed by routine visits and systematic anthropometric assessment, every 6 months in the first case and every 3 months in the second case.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980009004972_abs3\" sec-type=\"results\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Niakhar had less stunting, more wasting and higher death rates than Bwamanda. Differences in cause-specific mortality included more diarrhoeal diseases, more marasmus, but less malaria and severe anaemia in Niakhar. Severe wasting had a higher incidence, a higher prevalence and a more marked age profile in Niakhar. However, despite the differences, the estimated mean durations of episodes of severe wasting, calculated by multi-state life table, were similar in the two studies (7\u00b75 months). Noteworthy were the differences in the prevalence and incidence of severe wasting depending on the anthropometric indicator (weight-for-height <jats:italic>Z<\/jats:italic>-score \u2264\u20133.0 or mid upper-arm circumference &lt;110 mm) and the reference system (National Center for Health Statistics 1977, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 or Multicentre Growth Reference Study 2006).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980009004972_abs4\" sec-type=\"conclusion\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Severe wasting appeared as one of the leading cause of death among under-fives: it had a high incidence (about 2 % per child-semester), long duration of episodes and high case fatality rates (6 to 12 %).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1017\/s1368980009004972","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,3,2]],"date-time":"2009-03-02T15:01:06Z","timestamp":1236006066000},"page":"1974-1982","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":55,"title":["Incidence and duration of severe wasting in two African populations"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Michel","family":"Garenne","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Douladel","family":"Willie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bernard","family":"Maire","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Olivier","family":"Fontaine","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Roger","family":"Eeckels","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andr\u00e9","family":"Briend","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jan","family":"Van den Broeck","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,3,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"S1368980009004972_ref18","volume-title":"Nutritional Status of Children: Results from the Demographic and Health Surveys 1994\u20132001. 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