caa a22 4500 388062959 CHVBK 20180307125126.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199811 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0007114598001524 doi S0007114598001524 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0007114598001524 Maternal reports of child illness and the biochemical status of the child: the use of morbidity interviews in rural Bangladesh [Elektronische Daten] In a longitudinal study of child growth and nutritional status in Bangladesh, child morbidity was recorded using health interviews with the mother. The aim of the present study was to establish whether maternal reports of child illness were associated with the biochemical health status of the child. Children aged 2-5 years (n 117) took part in the study and their mothers were interviewed every fortnight by Bangladeshi fieldworkers. Maternal reports of diarrhoea were associated with significantly lower plasma albumin concentrations (P < 0·001), poorer intestinal permeability (P < 0·001), higher plasma immunoglobulin A levels (P < 0·005) and higher α-1-antichymotrypsin (ACT) levels (P < 0·05) compared with children reported to be healthy. Children with fever had significantly higher ACT (P < 0·001) and lower albumin (P < 0·05) levels compared with their healthy counterparts. Respiratory infections (RI) were not associated with any significant changes; however, reports of RI with fever were associated with significantly higher levels of ACT than either illness individually (interaction P < 0·05). These highly significant associations between maternal reports of illness and biochemical profiles of child health support the use of health interviews in developing countries. Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1998 Morbidity interviews nationallicence Childhood nationallicence Nutritional status nationallicence Rousham E. K. Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK Northrop-Clewes C. A. School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Coleraine BT52 1SA, UK Lunn P. G. MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1XJ, UK British Journal of Nutrition Cambridge University Press 80/5(1998-11), 451-456 0007-1145 80:5<451 1998 80 BJN https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114598001524 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114598001524 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rousham E. K. Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Northrop-Clewes C. A. School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Coleraine BT52 1SA, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lunn P. G. MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1XJ, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- British Journal of Nutrition Cambridge University Press 80/5(1998-11), 451-456 0007-1145 80:5<451 1998 80 BJN CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge