socio-economic and socio-demographic determinants of bnp values in children with pneumonia in benin city
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Abstract
Background
The level of BNP is usually used as a guide to heart failure.
However, there is need for the level of this peptide to be
known in non-cardiac conditions that may cause
inflammation and hypoxia.
Aims
To determine socio-demographic determinants of BNP in
children with pneumonia. To determine the socio-economic
determinants of BNP in children with pneumonia.
Methods
Over a year, consecutive children diagnosed radiologically
with pneumonia were evaluated echocardiographically for
CHD. Also, children with heart failure were excluded.
Inclusion criteria included all those children with ongoing
pneumonia without any evidence of any other co-morbidity
whether acute or chronic. Biodata and sociodemographic
variables of children with pneumonia that met the inclusion
criteria were collected and studied.
Results
Of the 50 subjects recruited for the study, 26 (52 per cent)
were males. The mean age for males 14.27±13.33, females
12.03±11.83, mean height for males 74.00±3.46 and
72.00±0.00 for females, the mean weight range from
8.30±1.87 and 7.08±3.40 for males and females
respectively. The mean BNP value for all subjects was
459.55±422.61, of which males had a mean value of
500.33±.399.93 and females 415.38±450.25 with a p value
of 0.483. The mean brain natriuretic factor for weight range
1–5.9kg was 203.83±116.04 that of 6–10.9kg was
645.22±314.26, while that of 11–15.9kg was the lowest with
115.85±72.46.
Conclusion
Apart from congenital heart disease and several other
morbidities both chronic and acute, sociodemographic
characteristics of the patient and some clinical features may
also affect BNP levels in the blood. Patients with pneumonia
had higher mean values of BNP when compared with
normal cut-off
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| Authors | ;Wilson Osa Osarogiagbon;Wilson Ehi Sadoh |
| Journal | translational behavioral medicine |
| Year | 2017 |
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