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Study Disproves Nutritions Role in Dengue Virus Infection Risk
In this study, researchers compared the height, weight and body-mass index (BMI) of three groups of children, ages 5 through 12. The groups were youngsters hospitalized for dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever who were compared with healthy classmates living in the same neighborhoods. BMI is a measurement of body mass based on a persons weight and height.
Those results were compared with an international sample of children of the same age compiled in the World Health Organizations standardized database. Roughly the same proportion of children in each of the studys groups qualified as either underweight, overweight or stunted, a possible sign of chronic malnutrition. There was also no difference in the average BMI of study participants, whether healthy or ill.
The study included 74 healthy children, 66 with dengue hemorrhagic fever and 62 with dengue fever. All were treated in El Salvadors only childrens referral hospital, which is in the capital city San Salvador.
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