Failure to gain in weight prior to the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

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dc.contributor.authorHennink M.J.
dc.contributor.authorSkibbe A.
dc.contributor.authorDonald P.R.
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-15T16:17:14Z
dc.date.available2011-05-15T16:17:14Z
dc.date.issued1988
dc.description.abstractPatterns of weight gain prior to the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in a group of 149 children notified as suffering from PTB were studied. Of 50 children with probable PTB, 33 (66 per cent) were either losing weight or failing to gain in weight, of whom only 14 (28 per cent) had a weight < 3rd percentile of weight for age. In the case of the remaining 99 children with suspected PTB 28 (28 per cent) had either lost weight or failed to gain in weight; of those 20 (20 per cent) had a weight < 3rd percentile. In both groups some children with a weight for age < 3rd percentile were gaining constantly in weight parallel to the 3rd percentile and thus although nutritionally growth retarded were not acutely malnourished.
dc.description.versionArticle
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Tropical Pediatrics
dc.identifier.citation34
dc.identifier.citation3
dc.identifier.issn01426338
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/14126
dc.subjectbody weight
dc.subjectchild
dc.subjectfemale
dc.subjecthuman
dc.subjectinfant
dc.subjectlung tuberculosis
dc.subjectmajor clinical study
dc.subjectmale
dc.subjectweight reduction
dc.subjectBody Weight
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectHuman
dc.subjectInfant
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectTuberculosis, Pulmonary
dc.titleFailure to gain in weight prior to the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis
dc.typeArticle
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