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Acute malnutrition increased
during the 1980s in primary school children in Paramaribo.
In 1994, a study in Paramaribo among 1,871 schoolchildren
aged 4–11 years found that 13% of boys had a weight-for-age
below the third percentile, twice that of girls (7%).
Wasting was the same for boys and girls, with
an overall prevalence of 16%.
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