Attribution of Malnutrition to Cause-Specific Diarrheal Illness: Evidence from a Prospective Study of Preschool Children in Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh

We examined whether malnutrition (underweight [WAZ] < –2) increased the risk of diarrhea equally for all enteropathogens. The study was conducted prospectively between January 1999 and July 2002 in Mirpur, an urban slum in Dhaka. Two hundred eighty-nine Bangladeshi children (147 male and 142 fema...

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Main Authors: Mondal, Dinesh, Haque, Rashidul, Sack, R. Bradley, Kirkpatrick, Beth D., Petri, William A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410540/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19407131
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