Linear growth following complicated severe malnutrition: 1-year follow-up cohort of Kenyan children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stunting is the most common manifestation of childhood undernutrition worldwide. Children presenting with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are often also severely stunted. We evaluated linear growth and its determinants after medically complicated SAM.

Methods

We performed secondary analysis of clinical trial data (NCT00934492) from HIV-uninfected Kenyan children aged 2-59 months hospitalised with SAM. Outcome was change in height/length-for-age z-score (HAZ) between enrolment and 12 months later. Exposures were demographic, clinical, anthropometric characteristics and illness episodes during follow-up.

Results

Among 1169 children with HAZ values at month 12 (66% of those in original trial), median (IQR) age 11 (7-17) months and mean (SD) HAZ -2.87 (1

SUBMITTER: Ngari MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6556974 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature