Factors associated with mortality in under-five children with severe anemia in Ebonyi, Nigeria

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-123

  Muoneke, Vivian U ^a   Ibekwe, Roland C ^a   Nebe Agumadu, Henrietta U ^b   Ibe, Bede C ^a  

^a EBONYI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Anemia; Causes; Death; Malaria; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVULSION; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOT EDEMA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; JAUNDICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; PALLOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIAL STATUS; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ANEMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NIGERIA; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84863086973     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 09747559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13312-012-0026-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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