Midupper Arm Circumference Outperforms Weight-Based Measures of Nutritional Status in Children with Diarrhea.

Background: Undernutrition contributes to 45% of all deaths in children <5 y of age worldwide, with a large proportion of those deaths caused by diarrhea. However, no validated tools exist for assessing undernutrition in children with diarrhea and possible dehydration.

Objective: This study assessed the validity of different measures of undernutrition in children with diarrhea.

State-level recreational fishing regulations and fish consumption advisories in the United States: identifying opportunities for improved interagency collaboration.

Context: Recreational fishing is regulated in 2 broad ways: natural resource-based management of fish stocks referred to here as "catch regulations," and public heath-based fish consumption advisories to reduce risks to humans from exposures to pollutants referred to as "consumption advisories."

Objective: To examine the extent to which state regulatory agencies present recreational fish catch regulations and consumption advisories together and develop an ecologically based, public health argument for why these fishing regulations and advisories could be joined.

Design: State-level catch regulations and consumption advisories were collected from 50 US states and analyzed for a variety of factors.