Health Outcomes, Pathogenesis and Epidemiology of Severe Acute Malnutrition (HOPE-SAM): Rationale and methods of a longitudinal observational study

BMJ Open

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Bwakura Dangarembizi, Mutsa ^a   Amadi, Beatrice ^b   Bourke, Claire D ^c   Robertson, Ruairi C ^c   Mwapenya, Benjamin ^d   Chandwe, Kanta ^b   Kapoma, Chanda ^b   Chifunda, Kapula ^b   Majo, Florence ^d   Ngosa, Deophine ^b   Chakara, Pamela ^d   Chulu, Nivea ^b   Masimba, Faithfull ^d   Mapurisa, Idah ^d   Besa, Ellen ^b   Mutasa, Kuda ^d   Mwakamui, Simutanyi ^b   Runodamoto, Thompson ^d   Humphrey, Jean H ^d   Ntozini, Robert ^d   Wells, Jonathan C K ^e   Manges, Amee R ^f   Swann, Jonathan R ^g   Walker, A Sarah ^h   Nathoo, Kusum J ^a   Kelly, Paul ^b,c   Prendergast, Andrew J ^c,d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Child Health Research   (Zimbabwe)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; enteropathy; HIV; malnutrition; microbiota; mortality

Indexed keywords

NUTRITION SUPPLEMENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY COMPOSITION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EDEMA; ENTEROPATHY; FECES ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE INJURY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; METABOLOMICS; MORTALITY RISK; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; URINALYSIS; ZAMBIA; ZIMBABWE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREVALENCE; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION; ZAMBIA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 85061044701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023077     Document Type: Article

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