Clinical risk factors of death from pneumonia in children with severe acute malnutrition in an urban critical care ward of Bangladesh.

Clinical risk factors of death from pneumonia in children with severe acute malnutrition in an urban critical care ward of Bangladesh.

BACKGROUND: Risks of death are high when children with pneumonia also have severe acute malnutrition (SAM) as a co-morbidity. However, there is limited published information on risk factors of death from pneumonia in SAM children. We evaluated clinically identifiable factors associated with death in...

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Main Authors: Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Hasan Ashraf, Abu S G Faruque, Pradip Kumar Bardhan, Md Iqbal Hossain, Abu S M S B Shahid, K M Shahunja, Sumon Kumar Das, Gazi Imran, Tahmeed Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3767805?pdf=render

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