Browsing by Author "Dhilip Kumar"

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B-type Natriuretic peptide Levels and Outcome in Children With Severe Acute Malnutrition With Co-morbidity
(Springer, 2020) Dhilip Kumar; Sunil Kumar Rao
We studied the ability of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in predicting mortality among 86 in-patients with severe acute malnutrition presenting with co-morbidity, and found that cut-off level of BNP ≥201 pg/mL in Receiver operating characteristics curve [AU-ROC 0.96 (95% CI 0.92,1.003, P<0.0001)] had high discriminative ability to distinguish between survivors and non-survivors. © 2020, Indian Academy of Pediatrics.
Cardiac changes in children hospitalized with severe acute malnutrition: A prospective study at tertiary care center of northern India
(Elsevier B.V., 2019) Dharmendra Jain; Sunil Kumar Rao; Dhilip Kumar; Ashok Kumar; Bhupendra Kumar Sihag
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) may affect cardiac structure and function. Cardiac changes in sick children with SAM have received little attention in the literature. Children aged 6–60 months with SAM were cases, and age and sex matched children were controls. Cardiac biomarker levels were measured by the quantitative the Enzyme- linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method, and echocardiography was used to assess cardiac changes in all children. The study included 76 children in each group. Children with SAM had less left ventricular mass and increased myocardial performance index as compared with controls (p < 0.0001). Cardiac biomarker levels were increased in children with SAM (p < 0.0001). Cardiac changes and biomarker levels were comparable in children with edema and children without edema except creatine kinase-MB (p = 0.01). © 2020 Cardiological Society of India
Risk Factors of Mortality in Hospitalized Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition
(Springer, 2019) Dhilip Kumar; Sunil Kumar Rao; Ashok Kumar; Tej Bali Singh
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