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Table 3 Mortality among children with severe acute malnutrition admitted to Mulago hospital

From: Mortality among children under five years admitted for routine care of severe acute malnutrition: a prospective cohort study from Kampala, Uganda

Variable

Dead n/Na

% (95% CI)

P value

Age (months)

  < 6

8/32

25 (0.1–0.4)

0.990

 6–23

50/197

25.4 (0.2–0.3)

 

  ≥ 24

9/37

24.3 (0.1–0.4)

 

HIV status

 Positive

15/32

46.9 (28.6–65.2)

0.003

 Negative

42/234

22.2 (16.9–27.6)

 

HIV status awareness at admission

 Positive and aware at admission

10/15

66.7 (6.3–60.4)

0.035

 Positive and not aware

5/17

29.4 (5.3–53.6)

 

ART status at admission

 On ART

7/10

70 (4.6–64.6)

0.077

 Not on ART

8/22

36.4 (14.5–58.2)

 

HIV exposure

HEI and HIV negative

 HEI

9/17

47.1 (23.5–72)

0.004

 HIV negative

52/234

22.2 (17.3–28)

 

HEUc and HIV negative

 HEU

8/22

36.4 (40.5–81.8)

0.094

 HIV negative

44/212

20.8 (15.7–26.8)

 

Edematous

 Edematous

23/122

18.9 (11.8–25.9)

0.028

 None

44/144

30.6 (22.9–38.2)

 

Diarrhea

 Yes

24/116

28.7 (64–78.7)

0.137

 No

43/150

20.7 (13.2–28.1)

 

Hemoglobin levels (g/dl)

  < 7

12/36

33.3 (17.2–49.5)

0.25

  ≥ 7

55/226

24.3 (18.7–30)

 

Hemoglobin levels (g/dl)

  < 4

6/9

66.7 (28.2–71.7)

0.004

  ≥ 4

61/253

24 (18.8–29.4)

 
  1. aN=Number of participants in each category whose outcome was known, b One of the HIV positive patients was lost to follow up, c One of the HEU children was lost to follow up