Diagnostic performance of visible severe wasting for identifying severe acute malnutrition in children admitted to hospital in Kenya
Polycarp Mogeni, Hemed Twahir, Victor Bandika, Laura Mwalekwa, Johnstone Thitiri, Moses Ngari, Christopher Toromo, Kathryn Maitland & James A Berkley
Volume 89, Number 12, December 2011, 900-906
Table 1. Number of children aged 6 to 59.9 months admitted to two public hospitals in Kenya and proportion of deaths, by mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), 2007–2010
| MUAC (cm) | CPGH |
KDH |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admissions No. (%) | Deaths No. (%) | Admissions No. (%) | Deaths No. (%) | ||
| < 11.5 (severely acute malnutrition) | 604 (15.3) | 103 (17.1) | 802 (11.1) | 117 (14.6) | |
| 11.5 to 12.4 (moderately acute malnutrition | 658 (16.7) | 77 (11.7) | 881 (12.2) | 43 (4.9) | |
| 12.5 to 13.4 (at risk of acute malnutrition) | 750 (19.0) | 47 (6.3) | 1483 (20.2) | 29 (2.0) | |
| ≥ 13.5 (not acutely malnourished) | 1941 (49.1) | 100 (5.2) | 4047 (56.1) | 58 (1.4) | |
| Total | 3953 (100) | 327 (8.3) | 7213 (100) | 192 (2.7) | |
CPGH, Coast Provincial General Hospital; KDH, Kilifi District Hospital.