Serum and hair zinc in severely malnourished Bangladeshi children associated with or without acute lower respiratory infection

Abstract

Severe PEM and PEM with ALRI were significantly associated with low zinc status.

Serum zinc levels in hospitalized children with acute lower respiratory infections in the north-central region of Nigeria

“…23,24 In the current study, the finding of lower serum zinc levels in the children with ALRI compared with the controls is consistent with those of earlier reports emanating from India and Bangladesh. 5,9,10,25 However, the magnitude of the relative differences in serum zinc levels (1.4 to 2.2 times) between the children with ALRI and the controls in these earlier reports 5,9,10,25 is less than that of the current study in which the difference was almost thrice what obtained in the cases. The lower magnitude of serum zinc level differences between the subjects with ALRI and the controls in these earlier reports compared to the corresponding findings of the present study may be ascribed to limited sample sizes of those earlier surveys.…”

“…The lower magnitude of serum zinc level differences between the subjects with ALRI and the controls in these earlier reports compared to the corresponding findings of the present study may be ascribed to limited sample sizes of those earlier surveys. 5,9,10,25 None of these earlier studies 5,9,10,25 had a subject pool of more than 50 children which contrasts with the subject pool of 120 in the current study.…”

“…In addition, the lower magnitude of differences in serum zinc level between the ALRI subjects and controls in the earlier reports 5,9,10,25 may also be ascribed to a better underlying nutritional status of subjects in these reports. This is underscored by the appropriate weight for height percentage identified in 86-100% of the children with ALRI.…”

Malnutrition coupled with diarrheal and respiratory infections among children in Asia: A systematic review

“…Worldwide, the WHO malnutrition guidelines are the most rigorous and accurate for children under the age of five (Silveira, Beghetto, Carvalho, & Mello, 2011) and identify how children should grow in ideal conditions (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). The rest of the articles defined malnutrition based on the CDC (Berger, de Pee, Bloem, Halati, & Semba, 2007;Semba et al, 2007), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) (Roy et al, 2011;Shakur, Malek, Bano, Rahman, & Ahmed, 2009), the IAP Classification of PEM (protein energy malnutrition) (Basu, Paul, Ganguly, Chatterjee, & Chandra, 2009;Savitha, Nandeeshwara, Pradeep Kumar, Ul-Haque, & Raju, 2007), and the Gomez (Tezer, Siklar, Dallar, & Dogankoc, 2009) guidelines. Three articles used a combination of methods: one used the WHO, CDC, and NCHS (Nakamori et al, 2010), another used the NCHS and WHO (Mukhopadhyay, Biswas, Chakraborty, Sadhukhan, & Banik, 2009), while the other used the WHO, Gomez, Waterlow, and Welcome criteria (Chalabi, 2013).…”

Association between Nutritional Status and Dental Caries among 12- to 15-year-old Government Schoolchildren of Rural Areas of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

“…[5][6][7][8][9][10] Malnutrition is also caused by famine and it is endemic in nature. 11 India is ranked second by the World Bank after Bangladesh, which has the highest number of malnourished children. 12 Dental caries is a worldwide disease.…”