Biochemical markers of nutritional status and childhood malaria severity in Cameroon

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 886-892

  Pankoui Mfonkeu, Joël Bertrand ^a   Gouado, Inocent ^a   Fotso Kuaté, Honoré ^b   Zambou, Odile ^c   Combes, Valéry ^d   Raymond Grau, Georges Emile ^d   Amvam Zollo, Paul Henri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

^b Hopital Laquintinie   (Cameroon)

^c Paediatric Service   (Cameroon)

^d University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cameroonian children; Malaria severity; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCIUM; CHOLESTEROL; MAGNESIUM; RETINOL; ALBUMINOID; LIPID;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEMIA; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; HOSPITALIZATION; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ALBUMINS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY WEIGHT; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MAGNESIUM; MALARIA; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 77957268847     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114510001510     Document Type: Article

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