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Mid-upper arm circumference predicts death in adult patients admitted to a TB ward in the Philippines: a prospective cohort study
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The Philippines is ranked 3rd globally for tuberculosis incidence (554/100,000 population). The tuberculosis ward at San Lazaro Hospital, Manila receives 1,800-2,000 admissions of acutely unwell patients per year with high mortality. Objectives of this prospective cohort study were to quantify the association of under-nutrition (primary) and diabetes (secondary) with inpatient mortality occurring between 3-28 days of hospital admission in patients with suspected or previously ...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0218193
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- Public Library of Science
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- PLoS One More from this journal
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 6
- Article number:
- e0218193
- Publication date:
- 2019-06-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-05-28
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1932-6203
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English
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1048682
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pubs:1048682
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- ©2019 Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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