Factors Associated With Pneumonia Among Overweight and Obese Under-Five Children in an Urban Hospital of a Developing Country

To our knowledge, there are no data on the role of overweight and obesity in childhood pneumonia. We sought to determine that impact of overweight and obesity in such children. In this retrospective chart analysis, we enrolled hospitalized children aged 6 to 59 months in the Dhaka Hospital of the ic...

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Main Authors: K. M. Shahunja MBBS, Tahmeed Ahmed PhD, Md. Iqbal Hossain PhD, Sumon Kumar Das MBBS, Abu Syeed Golam Faruque MPH, Md. Munirul Islam PhD, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid MBBS, Jui Das MSc, Mohammad Habibur Rahman Sarker MPH, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-10-01
Series:Global Pediatric Health
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2333794X16672528