Relationship between nutritional factors and clinical outcome in children with tuberculous meningitis

• Published in: Zhonghua er ke za zhi Vol. 60; no. 3; p. 221
• Main Authors: Ren, M, Chen, L X, Shu, M, Li, X, Li, Y Y, Zhong, X L, Zhu, Y, Guo, Q, Liao, Q, Wen, Y, Luo, S H, Wan, C M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 02.03.2022
• Subjects: Female; Humans; Leukocyte Count; Male; Nutrition Assessment; Nutritional Status; Retrospective Studies; Tuberculosis, Meningeal - cerebrospinal fluid; Tuberculosis, Meningeal - diagnosis
• ISSN: 0578-1310
• DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112140-20210926-00827

To investigate the relationship between nutritional risk status and clinical outcome in children with tuberculous meningitis (TBM). The clinical data (basic information, clinical symptoms and laboratory test results) of 112 patients with TBM, who were admitted to Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases of West China Second Hospital of Sichuan University,from January 2013 to December 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into the nutritional risk group and the non-nutritional risk group according to the assessment of the nutritional risk by the STRONGkids Scale. The variables of basic information, clinical symptoms and laboratory test measurements etc. were compared between the two groups by using Student test, Rank sum test or Chi-square test. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis were used to analyze nutritional risk factors. Among 112 patient with TBM, 55 were males and 57 females. There were 62 cases in the nutritional risk group and 50 cases in the non-nutritional risk grou