Risk Factors for Xerophthalmia Among Mothers and Their Children andfor Mother-Child Pairs With Xerophthalmia in Cambodia

Risk factors for xerophthalmia among mothers and their children and for mother-child pairs with xerophthalmia in Cambodia.

OBJECTIVE To characterize the risk of xerophthalmia among nonpregnant women and their children and the risk factors for households in which both mother and child have xerophthalmia. METHODS In case-control analyses of more than 15 000 households in the National Micronutrient Survey of Cambodia, univariate and multivariate logistic regression were used to estimate odds ratios (ORs) for nonpreg...

Nutritional factors in corneal xerophthalmia and keratomalacia.

Six measures of nutritional status were studied in 162 consecutive cases of presumed nutritional keratopathy ranging from mild xerosis through full-thickness necrosis (keratomalacia) and in a variety of control subjects. The severity of corneal involvement was related to the severity of wasting, prevalence of edema, and serum levels of albumin, transferrin, and vitamin A. Even the most sever...

Xerophthalmia and protein malnutrition in Bantu children.

XEROPHTHALMIA and malnutrition are worldwide problems, and their relationships to each other are of special interest. It is the purpose of this paper to show that: (1) Xerophthalmia occurs not uncommonly in the Republic of South Africa. Previous reports of xerophthalmia in the Republic of South Africa are few. Kark (1943) and Klenerman (1950) stated that xerophthalmia infrequently accompanies p...

Corneal xerophthalmia and keratomalacia.

Detailed examinations were conducted on 162 consecutive children with nutritional keratopathy. Surface changes ranged from mild haziness through generalized xerosis and formation of thickened keratinized plaques. Diffuse stromal edema occured early in the disease. Stromal loss took two forms: relatively small, sharply demarcated, eccentric, noninfiltrated cylindrical ulcers of varying depth; an...

Xerophthalmia in Rwandan refugees.