dc.contributor.author | Snow, RW | |
dc.contributor.author | Molyneux, CS | |
dc.contributor.author | Njeru, EK | |
dc.contributor.author | Omumbo, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Nevill, CG | |
dc.contributor.author | Muniu, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Marsh, K | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-07T15:48:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-07T15:48:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Acta Trop. 1997 Apr 30;65(1):1-10. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9140509 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/30312 | |
dc.description.abstract | Both malaria and undernutrition are major causes of paediatric mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. The introduction of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITBN) during a randomized controlled trial on the Kenyan coast significantly reduced severe, life-threatening malaria and all-cause childhood mortality. This paper describes the effects of the intervention upon the nutritional status of infants aged between 1 and 11 months of age. Seven hundred and eighty seven infants who slept under ITBN and 692 contemporaneous control infants, were seen during one of three cross-sectional surveys conducted during a one year period. Standardized weight-for-age and mid-upper arm circumference measures were significantly higher among infants who used ITBN compared with control infants. Whether these improvements in markers of nutritional status were a direct result of concomitant reductions in clinical malaria episodes remains uncertain. Never-the-less evidence suggests that even moderate increases in weight-for-age scores can significantly reduce the probability of mortality in childhood and ITBN may provide additional gains to child survival beyond their impressive effects upon malaria-specific events | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi. | en |
dc.title | The effects of malaria control on nutritional status in infancy | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
local.publisher | Department of Medicine | en |