Relationship between nutritional status and mortality in hospitalized children aged 1-59 months in the pediatric department of the CHU of Parakou (CHU-P) from 2018 to 2020
- Journal of Pediatrics & Neonatal Care
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Noudamadjo A, Kpanidja MG, Agbeille
Mohamed F, Affo M, Adédémy JD, Agossou J
Abstract
Introduction: Malnutrition is directly or indirectly associated with the death of children under 5 years of age in half of the cases. The objective of this study was to establish the relationship between pathological nutritional status and mortality in hospitalized children aged 1 to 59 months in the pediatric department of the CHU-P in Benin from 2018 to 2020.
Keywords
pathological nutritional status, hospital infant and child mortality, Benin
