Interplay among malnutrition, chemoprevention, and the risk of malaria in young Ugandan children: Longitudinal pharmacodynamic and growth analysis.
CPT Pharmacometrics Syst Pharmacol
; 12(5): 656-667, 2023 05.
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ABSTRACT
African children are at risk of malaria and malnutrition. We quantified relationships between malaria and malnutrition among young Ugandan children in a high malaria transmission region. Data were used from a randomized controlled trial where Ugandan HIV-unexposed (n = 393) and HIV-exposed (n = 186) children were randomized to receive no malaria chemoprevention, monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, daily trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, or monthly dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) from age 6-24 months, and then were followed off chemoprevention until age 36 months. Monthly height and weight, and time of incident malaria episodes were obtained; 89 children who received DP contributed piperaquine (PQ) concentrations. Malaria hazard was modeled using parametric survival analysis adjusted for repeated events, and height and weight were modeled using a Brody growth model. Among 579 children, stunting (height-for-age z-score [ZHA] < -2) was associated with a 17% increased malaria hazard (95% confidence interval [CI] 10-23%) compared with children with a ZHA of zero. DP was associated with a 35% lower malaria hazard (hazard ratio [HR] [95% CI], 0.65 [0.41-0.97]), compared to no chemoprevention. After accounting for PQ levels, stunted children who received DP had 2.1 times the hazard of malaria (HR [95% CI] 2.1 [1.6-3.0]) compared with children with a ZHA of zero who received DP. Each additional malaria episode was associated with a 0.4% reduced growth rate for height. Better dosing regimens are needed to optimize malaria prevention in malnourished populations, but, importantly, malaria chemoprevention may reduce the burden of malnutrition in early childhood.
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Assunto principal:
Infecções por HIV
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Desnutrição
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Malária
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Antimaláricos
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
País como assunto:
Africa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article