Recurrence of WHO-defined fast breathing pneumonia among infants, its occurrence and predictors in Pakistan: a nested case-control analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Studies in low-income and middle-income countries have shown an adverse association between environmental exposures including poverty. There is little literature from South Asia. We aimed to test the associations between housing, indoor air pollution and children's respiratory health and recurrent fast breathing pneumonia in a poor urban setting in Pakistan.

Setting

Primary health centres in a periurban slum in Karachi, Pakistan.

Methods

Nested matched case-control study within a non-inferiority randomised controlled trial of fast breathing pneumonia (Randomised Trial of Amoxicillin vs Placebo for Pneumonia (RETAPP)) in periurban slums of Karachi, Pakistan. Cases were children aged 2-60 months enrolled in RETAPP with fast breathing pneumonia who presented a

SUBMITTER: Brown N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6955570 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature