ArticleMalawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi2009
Low birth weight and fetal anaemia as risk factors for infant morbidity in rural Malawi.
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- The impact of anemia on child mortality: an updated review.Nutrients · 2014Pooled it
- Fetal Cytokine Balance, Erythropoietin and Thalassemia but Not Placental Malaria Contribute to Fetal Anemia Risk in Tanzania.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Article
- A cohort study of low birth weight and health outcomes in the first year of life, Ghana.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2017Article
- Distribution and Determinants of Low Birth Weight in Developing Countries.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2017Article
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- Intermittent treatment to prevent pregnancy malaria does not confer benefit in an area of widespread drug resistance.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2011Article
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Abstract
Low birth weight (LBW) and fetal anaemia (FA) are common in malaria endemic areas. To investigate the incidence of infectious morbidity in infants in rural Malawi in relation to birth weight and fetal anaemia, a cohort of babies was followed for a year on the basis of LBW (<2500) and FA (cord haemoglobin < 12.5 g/dl). A matched group of normal birth weight (NBW), non-anaemic (NFA) new-borns were enrolled as controls. Morbidity episodes were recorded at 4-weekly intervals and at each extra visit made to a health centre with any illness. Infants in the NBW NFA group experienced an average of 1.15 (95% C.I. 0.99, 1.31), 1.04 (0.89, 1.19), 0.92 (0.73, 1.11) episodes per year of malaria, respiratory infection and diarrhoea respectively. Corresponding values for the LBW FA group were 0.83 (0.5, 1.16), 0.82 (0.5, 1.16) and 0.76 (0.33, 1.19). FA was not associated with a higher incidence of morbidity, but was significantly associated with a shorter time to first illness episode (p = 0.014). LBW was not a significant risk factor for higher morbidity incidence. LBW and FA were not significant risk factors for incidence of illness episodes in infants.
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