Effect of Infection on Nutritional Status of Infants in a Cohort Study of Vitamin a in Western Kenya (P10-121-19)
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Abstract
Infection is associated with impaired nutritional status especially of infants under 5 years old. We assessed the impact of infection indicated by both the acute phase proteins (APP), C-reactive protein (CRP) and α-1-acid glycoprotein (AGP), and as reported by maternal recall on the nutritional status of infants. 505 pregnant women were enrolled into a nested longitudinal cohort study of vitamin A. Data analysis was restricted to infant data at 9-months (n = 385 mother-infant dyads) postpartum. Incidence and severity of respiratory infection and diarrhea over the previous 14 days were assessed by maternal recall; information on infant/child feeding practices were also collected. Infant weight, recumbent length and heel-prick capillary blood collection were taken at 9-months postpartum. Indicators of VA status [(retinol binding protein (RBP)], iron status (Hb, ferritin) and subclinical inflammation APP, CRP and AGP, were determined. Subclinical inflammation was defined as CRP >5 mg/L and/or AGP >1 g/L. Impacts of infection on infant nutritional status were estimated with multivariable logistic regression models adjusted for clustering and differences at enrollment. Infection prevalence, based on elevated CRP and AGP levels, was 36.7%. For diarrhea reported symptoms, 42.4% of infants at 9-months had no indication of infection as indicated by CRP and AGP; whilst for acute respiratory reported symptoms, 42.6% had no indication of infection. There was a weak but significant positive association with infection among VA deficient (RBP <0.83 μmol/L) infants based on maternal reported symptoms but not with iron deficiency (ferritin <12 μg/L). The odds of having infection, based on raised CRP and AGP, in underweight infants was 3.7 times higher (OR: 3.7; P = 0.019). Infants with iron deficiency were less likely (OR: 0.40; P = 0.001) to have infection based on CRP and AGP, whilst infants with VA deficiency were 5 times more likely (OR: 5.06; P = 0.0001) to have infection. Acute phase proteins are more useful in defining infection in a population compared to reported symptoms of illness. Not controlling for inflammation in a population while assessing nutritional status might result in inaccurate prevalence estimation. Supported by the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP53344).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".