title: [Admissions for protein-calorie malnutrition at the National Children's Hospital, Costa Rica, 1975].
abstract: The hospital records of 478 children with protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM) were reviewed. These represented all children diagnosed as malnourished during 1975 (3.6 per cent of all hospital admittances in the National Children's Hospital); 52% of the cases were infants less than 6 months of age; 28% had low birth weight, a rate much in excess of the prevalence of low birth weight in the general population of Costa Rica (7%). In general, malnourished children had been weaned early, 75% during the first month of life. A considerable number of children belonged to "malnourishing families" which have particular characteristics favorable to establishment of malnutrition in the family. Thus, 36% of their siblings had also been admitted with malnutrition at a previous date to that of this study.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001724:Birth Weight; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003364:Costa Rica; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007732:Kwashiorkor / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008423:Maternal Age; D010343:Patient Admission; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D011996:Records; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
vernacular_title: Admisiones por desnutrición energético-proteínica en el Hospital Nacional de Niños, Costa Rica, 1975.