Nutritional status and diarrhoeal morbidity: a longitudinal study in rural Indian preschool children.
Nutritional status and diarrhoeal morbidity: a longitudinal study in rural Indian preschool children.
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营养状况和腹泻发病率：印度农村学龄前儿童的纵向研究。
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1985
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Krishnamachari Ka
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R. Mathur;Reddy;Naidu An;Ravikumar.;Krishnamachari Ka
营养不良和腹泻病是发展中国家学龄前儿童相互关联的重要健康问题。为了确定营养不良对腹泻发病率的影响，对居住在海得拉巴附近两个村庄的721名5岁以下儿童进行了登记。根据最初的体重和身高，这些儿童被分为不同的营养等级；在接下来的一年里，记录了腹泻的发病率。腹泻的病原学是在一个子样本中确定的。据观察，腹泻的发病率约为1.6次/儿童/年，不同营养等级的儿童的腹泻发生率相似。然而，在III级营养不良的儿童中，导致严重脱水的发作百分比显著更高(P<0.05)。该组ETEC的分离率也较高，表明肠道细菌负荷较大。虽然先前存在的营养不良并不影响腹泻的发生率，但似乎对疾病的严重程度有重大影响。
Malnutrition and diarrhoeal diseases are important interrelated health problems of preschool children in the developing countries. For a prospective study to determine the effect of malnutrition on diarrhoeal morbidity 721 children under 5 years, living in two villages near Hyderabad were registered. The children were classified into different nutritional grades based on initial body weights and heights; and diarrhoea morbidity was recorded during the subsequent one year. The aetiology of diarrhoea was determined in a subsample. The incidence of diarrhoea was observed to be about 1.6 episodes/child/year and was similar in children with different nutritional grades. The percentage of episodes leading to severe dehydration was, however, significantly higher (P less than 0.05) in children with grade III malnutrition. The isolation of ETEC was also higher in this group indicating a greater bacterial load in the gut. Although pre-existing malnutrition did not affect the incidence of diarrhoea it seems to have a significant impact on the severity of the disease.