Proteoenergetic malnutrition and malaria-related morbidity in children under 59 months in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo;Malnutrition protéino-énergétique et morbidité liée au paludisme chez les enfants de 0-59 mois dans la région du Kivu, République Démocratique du Congo

Medecine Tropicale

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-57

  Mitangala Ndeba, P ^a   Hennart, P ^a   D'Alessandro, U ^b   Donnen, P ^c   Porignon, D ^a   Bisimwa Balaluka, G ^d   Dramaix Wilmet, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles/Lwiro   (Congo)

Author keywords

Anthropometric; Indicators; Malaria; Malnutrition

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; SERUM ALBUMIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 41649084536     PISSN: 0025682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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