Nutritional status of children with neurodevelopment disorders from a tertiary medical center of Bangladesh
Authors: Maskura Benzir, Jannatara Shefa
Description:
Background:
Cerebral palsy (CP), CP with epilepsy, epilepsy, speech delay, Down’s syndrome, autism, ADHD and vertigo are the most common disabilities among children in Bangladesh. Nutritional status assessment is important as these children are at risk of under nutrition, over nutrition or obesity. The primary objective of this study was to determine the nutritional status of children with neuro-disorder and secondary objective was to find out the factors correlated with poor nutritional status in these children.
Methods:
A retrospective study was conducted from a vast number of patients with neurodevelopment disorder attending the out-patient department (OPD) of Institute of Paediatric Neurodisorder and Autism (IPNA), BSMMMU, Dhaka with 149 sample cases from January 2015 to August 2015. Common indicators used to assess the nutrition status of neuro-disorder children were z-scores for weight-for-age, height-for-age, Body Mass Index-for-age percentile.