Hypophosphataemia in severe acute malnutrition: a prospective observational study
| Autor: | Sarika Gupta, Kalpana Singh, Rana Chanchal, Chandra Kanta, Sciddhartha Koonwar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Severe Acute Malnutrition Medicine (miscellaneous) 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Refeeding syndrome medicine.disease Tertiary care Enteral administration 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Who guidelines medicine Hypocalcaemia Observational study business |
| Zdroj: | The British journal of nutrition. 121(3) |
| ISSN: | 1475-2662 |
| Popis: | Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a major cause of child mortality and morbidity. Children treated for SAM are at risk of refeeding hypophosphataemia (HP). The study was done to find out the incidence and various predictors of moderate/severe HP in SAM among North Indian children. This prospective observational study was conducted from August 2014 to July 2015 in the inpatients’ department of Department of Paediatrics at King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, North India, a tertiary care teaching hospital. Before inclusion, ethical approval and written informed consent was obtained. Included in the study were sixty-five children aged 6–59 months of age, who were admitted to the hospital with SAM as per the WHO guidelines. SAM was defined as a mid-upper arm circumference z-scores of the WHO growth standards and/or have bilateral oedema. Serum P levels were measured on admission and for five consecutive days after starting feed. HP was defined as mild, moderate and severe with a cut-off of 1·19–0·65, 0·65–0·32 and |
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