Publications by authors named "C B Patsche"
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- In low-and middle-income countries like Nepal, childhood overweight is rising while underweight remains an issue, prompting research into the link between socio-economic status (SES) and nutrition among school children.
- A study involving 868 students aged 9-17 utilized a cross-sectional design and found that obesity, overweight, and stunting rates were significant, with 20% of girls being overweight/obese, compared to 13% of boys.
- Results indicated that both Lower and Upper SES children had higher chances of being overweight than those from Middle SES, highlighting the complexity of childhood malnutrition where stunting and overweight can occur simultaneously.
Background: Growing evidence supports the existence of a sex difference in immunity to tuberculosis (TB). This is most often to the detriment of males. This study aimed to assess the association between scar size from bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and mortality risk stratified by sex.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Both tuberculosis (TB) and tobacco smoking are preventable health hazards. Few studies have examined the relationship between TB and tobacco smoking in an African setting, where the two health burdens collide heavily. This study aimed to describe the severity of TB disease and treatment outcomes among smokers with TB compared with nonsmokers with TB in Guinea-Bissau.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn an urban demographic, high TB burden surveillance site in Guinea-Bissau, most deaths occur at home, and information on cause of death (CoD) is lacking. To examine CoD and the proportion of TB deaths in three groups: among patients examined for TB without a verified diagnosis after diagnostic workup, described as "assumed TB-negative" (aTBneg), among patients with a confirmed diagnosis of TB and in a sample of the background population. Verbal autopsies (VAs) were obtained for registered deaths occurring between 1 January 2010 and 15 June 2016.
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