Low birth weight and fetal anaemia as risk factors for infant morbidity in rural Malawi

doi:10.4314/mmj.v21i2.44553

Low birth weight and fetal anaemia as risk factors for infant morbidity in rural Malawi

B Kalanda, F Verhoeff, S le Cessie, J Brabin

Abstract

Low birth weight (LBW) and fetal anaemia (FA) are common in malaria endemic areas. To investigate the incidence of infectious morbidity in infants in rural Malawi in relation to birth weight and fetal anaemia, a cohort of babies was followed for a year on the basis of LBW (

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