Abstract

DIAZ FERNANDEZ, Lyliam; MENDOZA SANCHEZ, Mercedes; IZQUIERDO ESTEVEZ, Arnaldo  and  LEON GARCIA, Edelio. Diarrea persistente: algunos factores de riesgo. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 1999, vol.71, n.1, pp. 23-27. ISSN 1561-3119.

A descriptive-longitudinal study was conducted aimed at evaluating some sociocultural aspects in 75 children under 2 that due to persistent diarrhea were admitted in the Service of Diarrheal Diseases of the «Dr. Angel A. Aballí» Pediatric Teaching Hospital, in Havana City, from July, 1995, to March, 1996, including both. The results allow to assure that most of these episodes occurred in infants and that the high index of heaping, bad hygienic and sanitary conditions of the houses and parents with middle educational level predominated in the social background of the studied children.

Keywords : DIARRHEA, INFANTILE [etiology]; RISK FACTORS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEAPING; HOUSING SANITATION; PER CAPITA INCOME; HOUSING.

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