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Background and Objectives: Nutritional status is considered a significant and positive health indicator. It determines anthropometric measurements of preschool children, the height of children at the time of school entry and prevalence of low birth weight... see more

Background: The immune status of children is always affected by nutrition. Sometime severe malnutrition is associated with falsenegative Mantoux test. There is a need to study to observe the effect of nutritional status on the size of indurations in Manto... see more

Malnutrition among under five year of age group is a major underlying cause of the child morbidity and mortality in many developing countries like Nepal. Nutritional status of children is a proxy indicator for assessing the health status of entire populat... see more

Background: Undernutrition is common in children with congenital heart disease (CHD), especially in developing countries including Indonesia. The objective of the study was to describe the nutritional status of children patients with Tetralogy of Fallot.M... see more

Características clínico-epidemiológicas en pacientes pediátricos con paludismo. Hospital Provincial de Cabinda / Clinical-epidemiological characteristics in pediatric patients with malaria. Provincial Hospital of Cabinda Características clínico-epidemiológicas en pacientes pediátricos con paludismo. Hospital Provincial de Cabinda / Clinical-epidemiological characteristics in pediatric patients with malaria. Provincial Hospital of CabindaObjetivo: describir las características clínico-epidemiológicas delos enfermos pediátricos con paludismo en la provincia de Cabinda.Material y Métodos: se realizó un estudio transversal clínicoepidemiológico que comprendió 3 410 enfermos menores de 15años, atendidos en el servicio de urgencia del Hospital Provincialde Cabinda. Se registraron las variables de edad, sexo, estadonutricional, estación del año, hemoglobina, parasitemia y conductamédica seguida con los pacientes encuestados. Se compararonlos pacientes con paludismo y sin paludismo mediante la razón deproductos cruzados con intervalo de confianza del 95% y valor dep = 0,05.Resultados: el cuadro clínico del paludismo se caracterizó porfiebre, palidez evidente, hepatoesplenomegalia, astenia, depresiónde la conciencia y convulsiones. Las complicaciones más frecuentesfueron la hiperparasitemia y la anemia grave. El grupo etario demayor riesgo fue los niños menores de cinco años. No mostraronasociación el sexo, la estación del año y el estado nutricional delos pacientes. Las combinaciones sintomáticas más significativasfueron fiebre/convulsiones/palidez y fiebre/hepatoesplenomegalia/dolor abdominal.Conclusiones: el paludismo representa un problema de salud enCabinda, con mayor frecuencia en las edades menores de cincoaños y sus complicaciones neurológicas se observaron en menorcantidad que las mencionadas en la literatura, con influencia de lainfección por Plasmodium en pacientes con anemia intensa.Palabras clave: paludismo; Plasmodium; parasitemia; gotagruesa; epidemiología.ABSTRACTObjective: describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristicsof pediatric patients with malaria in the province of Cabinda.Methods and materials: a cross-sectional clinical-epidemiologicaland retrospective study was carried out, which included 3 410patients under 15 years of age, treated in the emergency serviceof the Provincial Hospital of Cabinda. The following variableswere recorded: age, sex, nutritional status, season, hemoglobin,parasitaemia and medical behavior followed by the patientssurveyed. Patients with malaria and without malaria were comparedby means of crossed products with a 95% confidence interval anda p value =0,05.Results: the clinical picture of malaria was characterized byfever, evident pallor, hepatosplenomegaly, asthenia, depression ofconsciousness and convulsions. The most frequent complicationswere hyperparasitemia and severe anemia. The age group athighest risk were children under 5 years of age, without distinctionof sex, season or nutritional status of the patients. The mostsignificant symptomatic combinations were fever / convulsions /pallor and fever / hepatosplenomegaly / abdominal pain.Conclusions: malaria is a health problem in Cabinda mostfrequently, at ages 1 to 4 years, and its neurological complicationswere observed in smaller amounts, than those mentioned in theliterature with influence of Plasmodium infections in patients withanemia intense, without other variables being determinant in theincrease in the number of these patients.Keywords: malaria; Plasmodium; parasitaemia; thick blood:epidemiology.

los enfermos pediátricos con paludismo en la provincia de Cabinda.Material y Métodos: se realizó un estudio transversal clínicoepidemiológico que comprendió 3 410 enfermos menores de 15años, atendidos en el servicio de urgencia del Hospital Provincialde C... see more

Malnutrition in children often begins at birth and is associated with retarded physical and cognitive development. Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin and an essential micronutrient needed in small amounts for the normal functioning of the visual system, m... see more

Background: Cleft lip with or without cleft palate is one of the most common congenital anomalies. Development is often affected in these children. It may be due to other associated defects, syndromic status, or malnutrition. Objective: The objective of t... see more

Dental caries is a dental and oral health problem for the majority of the Indonesian population. Dental caries affects most children. Caries that occur in children is often not treated or treated, resulting in a toothache. This condition can have an impac... see more

Malnutrition in children often begins at birth and is associated with retarded physical and cognitive development. Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin and an essential micronutrient needed in small amounts for the normal functioning of the visual system, m... see more

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