Pediatrics HIV/AIDS Comorbidity
Comorbidities cause death in children hospitalized with diarrheal disease
Published in Gastroenterology Week, June 19th, 2006
In a recently published article, scientists in South Africa conducted a study to "describe the profile of comorbidities in children admitted with diarrhea to an urban hospital with high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence in South Africa and to examine the contribution of comorbidities to inpatient mortality.
"Data from a retrospective random sample of 319 children were extracted and analyzed from a total of 1145 children hospitalized for diarrhea in 2001. We used multiple logistic...
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