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Factors associated with severe anaemia in Zambian children admitted with Plasmodium falciparum malarial anaemia.

Mulenga M, Malunga P, Bennett S, Thuma PE, Shulman C, Fielding K, Greenwood BM

Tropical Diseases Research Centre, Ndola, Zambia. modest.mulenga@lshtm.ac.uk

Many cases of severe malarial anaemia are clinically stable, but some can deteriorate rapidly. In a cross-sectional survey of 255 children with clinically stable malarial anaemia, 72 had severe anaemia (PCV < or = 15%) and 183 were moderately anaemic (PCV < 15-21%). Being female, or febrile, or a referral and having low parasitaemia or hepatomegaly were the risk factors for severe anaemia.

Published 13 June 2005 in Ann Trop Paediatr, 25(2): 87-90.
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