title: Co-morbidities in hospitalized children with severe acute malnutrition.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the co morbidities in hospitalized children with severe acute malnourishment.
  
  
  METHODS
  104 severe acute malnourished children were included.
  
  
  RESULTS
  54% had diarrhea and 27.8% had acute respiratory tract infections. Tuberculosis was diagnosed in 22% of cases (60.8% cases in children 6-12 mo old). Malaria and Measles were diagnosed in 3.8% each, and HIV infection was seen in 2.9% cases. Signs of vitamin B and vitamin A deficiency were seen in 14.4% and 5.8% cases, respectively. Malaria and HIV were not found to be major co morbid conditions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Timely identification and treatment of various co-morbidities is likely to break undernutrition-disease cycle, and to decrease mortality and improve outcome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics ,Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Shyam Shah Medical College, APS University, Rewa, MP. India. Correspondence to: Dr H P Singh, Department of Pediatrics, Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Shyam Shah Medical College, APS University, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India. drhpsingh1@rediffmail.com.
authors.forename: Rakesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Jyoti
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Karan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bijesh
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology*