Predictors of oedema among children hospitalized with severe acute malnutrition in Jimma University Hospital, Ethiopia: A cross sectional study

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Girma, Tsinuel ^a   Kæstel, Pernille ^b   Mølgaard, Christian ^b   Michaelsen, Kim F ^b   Hother, Anne Louise ^b   Friis, Henrik ^b  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Infection; Oedema; Predictors; Risk; Severe acute malnutrition

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; EDEMA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TUBERCULOSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDEMA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84889063521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-13-204     Document Type: Article

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