Prevalence, Types and Risk Factors for Malnutrition in Displaced Sudanese Children

被引：12

作者：

Mamoun, Nuha ^{[1
]}

Homedia, Susan ^{[1
]}

Mabyou, Mustafa ^{[2
]}

Muntasir, Hussan ^{[1
]}

Salah, T. ^{[3
]}

Adam, Ishag ^{[1
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Acad Med Sci & Technol, Khartoum, Sudan

[2] Int Univ Africa, Coll Med, Khartoum, Sudan

[3] Ribat Univ, Khartoum, Sudan

[4] Univ Khartoum, Fac Med, Khartoum, Sudan

来源：

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES | 2005年 / 1卷 / 02期

关键词：

Sudan; prevalence; types; risk factors; malnutrition; children;

D O I：

10.3844/ajidsp.2005.84.86

中图分类号：

R51 [传染病];

学科分类号：

100401 ;

摘要：

The nutritional status of 327 under-five children living in Mayoo displacement camp, Khartoum, Sudan, was assessed during May-August 2004. Risk factors for protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) were also studied. According to WHO criteria, a total of 186 (56.1%) children had malnutrition, of these 101(30.1%), 43 (13.1%) and 42 (12.8%) were mildly, moderately and severely malnourished respectively. According to Welcome classification, the commonest type of malnutrition was found to be underweight (38.2%), marasmus, kwashiorkor were detected in (6.4%) and (0.9%) respectively, there was no case of marasmic kwashiorkor in the studied population. Prevalence of vitamin "A" was 9.2% of which 0.9% had night blindness. Age, sex, lack of immunization, lack of breast -feeding, history of fever and history of diarrhoea were tested and were not found be risk factors for malnutrition in this group of children.

引用

页码：84 / 86

页数：3

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