Is fat mass a better predictor of 6-month survival than muscle mass among African children aged 6-59 months with severe pneumonia?

Weight for Height z score (WHZ), HAZ and BAZ had lower AUC than that of AFA and MUAC (0.64 (95%CI 0.50–0.78), 0.69 (95%CI 0.53–0.84) and 0.57 (95%CI 0.40–0.74) respectively) but this did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.19, 0.39, and 0.13 respectively for comparison with AFA and p = 0.23, 0.58 and 0.20 respectively for comparison with MUAC).

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