Under-five Protein Energy Malnutrition Admitted at the University of in Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu: A 10 year retrospective review

Nutrition Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ubesie, Agozie C ^a   Ibeziako, Ngozi S ^a   Ndiokwelu, Chika I ^a   Uzoka, Chinyeaka M ^a   Nwafor, Chinelo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Admission; Case fatality; Co morbidities; Enugu; PEM; Under five children

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEWBORN; NIGERIA; PEDIATRIC WARD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KWASHIORKOR; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84862227609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2891-11-43     Document Type: Article

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