Nutritional and Clinical Status of Children Admitted to the Malnutrition Ward, Maputo Central Hospital: A Comparison of Data from 2001 and 1983

Malnutrition is the fourth commonest reason for hospital admission to the paediatric department of the Central Hospital, Maputo and has the second highest death rate (20 per cent). A study from 1995 into mortality at this paediatric department, suggested an increase in severe malnutrition. Recent st...

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Published in:Journal of tropical pediatrics (1980) 2005-04, Vol.51 (2), p.102-105
Main Authors: Cartmell, E., Natalal, H., François, I., Ferreira, M. H., Grahnquist, L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Body Weight
Child Nutrition Disorders - epidemiology
Child, Preschool
Comorbidity
Female
General aspects
Growth Disorders - epidemiology
Humans
Infant
Infant Nutrition Disorders - epidemiology
Male
Medical sciences
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Morbidity - trends
Mozambique - epidemiology
Nutritional Status
Retrospective Studies
Statistics, Nonparametric
Wasting Syndrome - epidemiology
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Summary:Malnutrition is the fourth commonest reason for hospital admission to the paediatric department of the Central Hospital, Maputo and has the second highest death rate (20 per cent). A study from 1995 into mortality at this paediatric department, suggested an increase in severe malnutrition. Recent studies have shown that the global burden of undernutrition in the world is declining; however, data for Eastern Africa shows a deterioration. The current study was aimed at describing and comparing the patients on the malnutrition ward, in 2001 and 1983. The study gathered indices of nutritional status and secondary diagnoses from the notes of all children (aged between 6 months and 5 years) discharged from the malnutrition ward for a period of l year (January–December 2001), and from data (collected in January–December 1983) for the malnutrition ward. Data was entered and analysed using Epi-Info 6 and SPSS statistics package. The ethics committee of the hospital approved the study. Data was collected for 558 children in 2001 and 833 in 1983. There was no gender difference, average age was 21.7 months in 2001 and 23.8 months in 1983 and the average hospital stay was 13.1 and 14.3 days, respectively. In 2001, 33 per cent had kwashiorkor, 26 per cent marasmus, and 28 per cent marasmic kwashiorkor. Three hundred and twenty children (82 per cent) were
ISSN:0142-6338
1465-3664
DOI:10.1093/tropej/fmh088