xerophthalmia/diarrhea

Preschool-age rural Indonesian children were reexamined every 3 mo for 18 mo. An average of 3228 were free of xerophthalmia at the examination initiating each of the six, 3-mo follow-up intervals. Children with respiratory disease and/or a recent history of diarrhea at the start of an interval

A nationwide sample survey was conducted between July 1980 and June 1981 to determine the prevalence of xerophthalmia among Nepalese children. Population proportionate random samples were drawn from the 12 geopolitical subdivisions of the country by employing multistage sampling technique. The

Acute infections of childhood are associated with an increased of xerophthalmia, apparently due to depletion of vitamin A stores. The mechanism responsible for this is not known. Recently, it has been reported that severe infections in adult patients (ie, sepsis and pneumonia) result in excretion of

Preschool-age rural Indonesian children were reexamined every 3 months for 18 months. An average of 3135 children were free of respiratory disease and or diarrhea at the examination initiating each of the six, 3-month follow-up intervals. Children with mild xerophthalmia (night blindness and/or

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors for xerophthalmia in the Republic of Kiribati. METHODS Case-control study. METHODS The Republic of Kiribati. METHODS 666 xerophthalmic preschool children (cases) and 816 children without xerophthalmia (controls) from a population-based sample of 4619 children who

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors of xerophthalmia among preschool children in rural India. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out between January and June 1998 in the area of Bihta Primary Health Center in Bihar, India and included 4,205 preschool children from 14 villages. The

To explore the relationship between vitamin A deficiency and persistent diarrhea among young children, we studied the vitamin A status of 23 children greater than 5 years of age with persistent diarrhea by performing conjunctival impression cytology (CIC) and the relative dose-response test (RDR) as

OBJECTIVE To characterize the risk of xerophthalmia among nonpregnant women and their children and the risk factors for households in which both mother and child have xerophthalmia. METHODS In case-control analyses of more than 15 000 households in the National Micronutrient Survey of Cambodia,

Incidence, duration, and severity of diarrhea and respiratory symptoms were monitored weekly for 1 y in 15,419 children 6-60 mo of age in a randomized, placebo-controlled, masked clinical trial conducted in southern India. Half the children received weekly doses of 8.7 mumol (2500 microgram) vitamin

An investigation of xerophthalmia was undertaken in four ecological zones in Cebu in the Philippines. One thousand seven hundred fifteen children aged 1 to 16 years were examined in 12 barrios. Clinical, biochemical and anthropometric data were collected from the children. Dietary and socioeconomic

Vitamin A deficiency is a major public health problem in the countries of the Sahel. It causes xerophthalmia and high rates of child mortality and it occurs mostly in underdeveloped regions. People of all ages may suffer from vitamin A deficiency but it is a particular problem in pre-school-age

A patient with acute myelogenous leukemia treated with an allogeneic bone marrow transplant developed acute graft-versus-host disease manifested by severe diarrhea, hepatitis, and a cutaneous eruption. As the graft-versus-host disease progressed to the chronic phase, the patient developed marked

OBJECTIVE To identify children aged 0-72 months with blinding xerophthalmia in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and its adjoining Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan, using a new surveillance system, and to describe socio-economic and other characteristics of reported

BACKGROUND Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is endemic in Brazil and health professionals have difficulty in recognizing its subclinical form. In addition, serum retinol concentrations do not always represent vitamin A status in the organism. OBJECTIVE To identify VAD in preschool children by the serum