Nutritional Parameters and Other Risk Factors Affecting Severity of Pneumonia in Children Under Five Years in Upper Egypt

Assiut University

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Hypoalbuminemia

Stunted Growth

Anemia, Iron Deficiency

Treatments

Dietary Supplement: Measurement of nutritional parameters in children with pneumonia

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05050851

AOMSaid

Details and patient eligibility

About

Decrease mortality rate resulting from pneumonia

Full description

Recruiting patients with pneumonia admitted at Assiut University hospital . Then assessment of their condition and severity of pneumonia by examination and X-ray chest . After that, we aim at assessment their nutrition status and it's effect on severity of pneumonia. So we aim to investigate them by CBC, Albumin, CRP and CXR and correlate these parameters with the severity of pneumonia to assess the impact of nutrition on outcome of chest infections

Enrollment

30 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

1 to 60 months old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria