Sentence examples for wasting rate from inspiring English sources

The wasting rate in Pyongyang, the capital, was just under 4 percent, against 12 percent in South Hamgyong.

These include child wasting, rates of exclusive breastfeeding, and anaemia in girls.

Mass wasting rates were further converted to sediment load based on percentage of transportable material in the bank strata.

No elevation or planimetric corrections were made to the laser data before calculating mass wasting rates because it was not possible to determine the source of error or if it was uniform within and between scans.

Table  1 summarises the stunting and wasting rates of children under 5 in these countries.

Stunting particularly affects children in the tea estate sector, while wasting rates are very high almost everywhere.

They also have stunting and wasting rates above the national average and the greatest number of food deficit counties.

These wasting rates indicate that acute undernutrition remains a matter of concern in early childhood, especially as severely malnourished children have 900 times higher risk of death [ 13].

Similarly, wasting rates indicate the need for a system to identify children with severe malnutrition in the isolated communities so that they can receive appropriate care.

Considering the sampling differences and likely inter-observer variability across the national and district surveys, the similarities in the stunting and wasting rates are striking.

For wasting, the main difference between the WHO standards and the NCHS reference is during infancy (i.e., up to about 70 cm in length) when wasting rates will be substantially higher using the WHO standards.