ArticleBMC pediatrics2021
Nutritional status and associated factors among children with congenital heart disease in selected governmental hospitals and cardiac center,Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
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- Nutritional status and associated factors in Ethiopian children with congenital heart disease: a systematic review and meta - analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2026Pooled it
- Prevalence of undernutrition and associated factors among children with congenital heart disease in Africa: a systemic review and meta-analysis.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Risk factors of malnutrition in children with congenital heart disease: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
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- Impact of anatomic complexity of congenital heart disease on growth retardation: a large retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- The Association Between Preoperative Malnutrition and Early Postoperative Outcomes in Children with Congenital Heart Disease: A 2-Year Retrospective Study at a Lebanese Tertiary Medical Center.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Growth Failure in Children with Congenital Heart Disease.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Undernutrition in young children with congenital heart disease undergoing cardiac surgery in a low-income environment.BMC pediatrics · 2024Observational
- Anemia in Children with Congenital Heart Disease: A Finding from Low-Resource Setting Hospitals.International journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- A reflection of Africa's cardiac surgery capacity to manage congenital heart defects: a perspective.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- Moderate and Severe Congenital Heart Diseases Adversely Affect the Growth of Children in Italy: A Retrospective Monocentric Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Short-Term Impact of Cardiac Intervention on the Nutritional Status of Malnourished Children with Congenital Heart Disease - A Report from a Developing African Country, Ethiopia.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2023Article
- Outcome and factors associated with undernutrition among children with congenital heart disease.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundChildren with congenital heart disease are at risk for poor growth and under-nutrition compared with healthy children. The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status of children with congenital heart disease and associated factors in selected governmental hospitals and cardiac center Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
methodInstitutional based cross sectional study among 373 children aged under15 years was conducted from February to March; 2021G.c. Data was collected using structured questionnaire and chart review. Z-scores based on WHO reference ranges were used. Anthropometric z-scores based on WHO 2007 reference ranges were generated for each child. Weight-for-age z-scores for children 0-10 years and height-for-age and BMI-for-age z-scores for all children. Binary logistic regression was used for associated factors.
resultA total of 373 children were participated in this study. The prevalence of wasting and stunting was 144(38.6%) and 134(35.9%) respectively. The prevalence of underweight and malnutrition in children under 10 years was 143(43.1%). Most of the children were diagnosed with VSD (36.7%). Children age group of 13 months-5 years were associated with wasting and underweight [AOR = 0.434, 95%CI: (0.231, 0.816)] and [AOR = 0.360, 95%CI: (0.183, 0.711)] respectively. Children diagnosed with PAH were 1.885 times more likely to be underweight [AOR = 1.885, 95%CI: (1.094, 3.246)]. When the hemoglobin level increases by every unit per g/dl the chance to be wasting and underweight decreases by 13.1 and 18.6%[AOR = 0.869, 95%CI: (0.792, 0.955)] and [AOR = 0.869, 95%CI: (0.792, 0.955)] respectively. The level of SPO2 is associated with stunting and underweight [AOR = 0.970, 95%CI: (0.943, 0.998)] and [AOR = 0.970, 95%CI: (0.943, 0.998)] respectively.
conclusionThe prevalence of malnutrition in children with CHD is pretty high. Decreased level of hemoglobin and SPO
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