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Choose the most appropriate answers.
4. When is it most appropriate to use the weight-for-age index?
a) For growth monitoring.
b) In surveys of nutritional status.
c) In differential diagnosis for a child who is underweight.
d) In nutritional surveys to determine levels of stunting.
e) In differential diagnosis for a child with wasting.
Please answer the question first.
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The correct answers are a) and b). For c) you would use weight-for-height and height-for-age to obtain a differential diagnosis (i.e. to determine if underweight is due to stunting and/or wasting). For d) it is height-for-age that is used to measure stunting. For e), wasting is already a differential diagnosis.
