Wen-Yi Luo1, Zhuo-Ming Xu1, Li Hong2, Qian-Yue Wu1, Yue-Yue Zhang1
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.12, No.6, pp. 777-782, 2017, DOI:10.1111/chd.12489
Abstract Background: Food allergy is a rapidly growing public health concern because of its increasing
prevalence, as well as life-threatening potential. There is limited knowledge on the nutritional status for the pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD) patients with food allergy.
Objective: This study investigated both clinical and nutritional outcomes according to the CHD
infants with food allergy.
Methods: Forty CHD infants with food allergy and 39 controls were recruited in Shanghai, China.
The height and weight for age and weight for height were converted to z-scores to evaluate their
effects on nutritional status before and after CHD operation.
Results: Cow’s… More >
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