title: [Malnutrition as a multiple cause of death].
abstract: With the purpose of describing the role of malnutrition at death time, an analysis of multiple causes of death in children under five years-old was performed on deaths which occurred during April and May 1985 in Mexico City. A proportional mortality analysis was done taking in consideration all the causes listed on the death certificate, not only the underlying causes. The number of deaths associated to malnutrition was greater by multiple cause than by underlying cause (OR = 7.9, 95% CI 5.0-12.7, p = 0.00000). The importance of considering multiple causes of death, mainly when there are frequent diseases which are some times recorded as underlying cause of death, is also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Salud Pública de México, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bustamante-Montes
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Villa-Romero
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lezana-Fernández
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fernández de Hoyos
authors.forename: V H
authors.initials: VH
authors.lastname: Borja-Aburto
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lona-Zamora
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Rascón-Pacheco
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*; D003644:Death Certificates; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*
vernacular_title: El análisis de la desnutrición como causa múltiple de muerte.