Nutritional status and diarrheal illness as independent risk factors for alveolar pneumonia

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 162, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 999-1007

  Coles, Christian L ^a,b,c,d   Fraser, Drora ^b,c   Givon Lavi, Noga ^a,b   Greenberg, David ^a,b   Gorodischer, Raphael ^a,b   Bar Ziv, Jacob ^e   Dagan, Ron ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c S Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition   (Israel)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anemia; Diarrhea; Micronutrients; Nutritional status; Pneumonia; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRENATAL CARE; RISK FACTOR;

ANEMIA; ARABS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VITAMIN A;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 27744585679     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwi312     Document Type: Article

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