Inpatient Morbidity and Mortality of Severely Underweight Children Was Comparable to That of Severely Wasted Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: Both wasting and undernutrition are responsible for multiple morbidities and increased mortality in younger children hospitalized for acute illnesses. The question of whether children who are suffering from severe underweight are as vulnerable as children suffering from severe wasting needs to be researched further. We aimed to compare the morbidity and mortality of severely underweight but not severely wasted (SU-nSW) children with that of severely wasted (SW) children admitted to inpatient wards of a hospital. Data from 12,894 children aged < 5 years were collected using cross-sectional methods from Dhaka Hospital, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh between March 2019 and December 2021. After exclusion of non-desired populations (N = 8,834), comparisons betw

SUBMITTER: Islam MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10484262 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature