[Clinical signs of malnutrition in children living around a mining area: a case study in the city of Lubumbashi and its surrounding]. / Signes cliniques rencontrés chez l'enfant malnutri dans un milieu minier: cas de la ville de Lubumbashi et ses environs.
Pan Afr Med J
; 24: 67, 2016.
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| ID: mdl-27642407
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Malnutrition remains to this day a major public health problem, particularly in developing countries. This study aimed to determine the clinical signs observed in malnourished children admitted to a care unit.METHODS:
This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, conducted from July 2013 to December 2014. Our study included 311 cases (182 malnourished children and 129 well-nourished children), based on exhaustive sampling, with an active screening of malnourished and well-nourished children. The diagnosis was made clinically and was associated with anthropometry.RESULTS:
The main collected symptoms in malnourished children were cough or pneumonia in 42.50%, gastroenteritis in 38.55%, skin lesions in 22.91% of cases, fever in 22.35% of cases, edema in 19.0% of children, pallor in 8.38% of children; finally splenomegaly and hepatomegaly were the less common symptoms (1.68% and 2.89% respectively). Well-nourished children, instead, showed splenomegaly and fever associated with malaria.CONCLUSION:
Malnourished children living around a mining area don't differ in symptomatology from the other malnourished children, except for hepatomegaly and splenomegaly which are very rare in our malnourished children.Palabras clave
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Trastornos de la Nutrición del Niño
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Tamizaje Masivo
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Minería
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Screening_studies
Límite:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Africa
Idioma:
Fr
Revista:
Pan Afr Med J
Año:
2016
Tipo del documento:
Article