Treatment Outcome of Severe Acute Malnutrition and Its Determinants among Pediatric Patients in West Ethiopia

Table 2

Distribution of medical comorbidities information on treatment outcome of children with SAM admitted to Pediatric Ward of NRH, West Ethiopia, from November 2015 to April 2017 (n=205).

Variables	Frequency	Percentages (%)
Fever	78	38.0
Hypothermia	60	29.3
Appetite at admission
Good	47	22.9
Poor	158	77.1
Pneumonia	44	21.5
Vomiting	82	40.0
Diarrhea	72	35.1
Types of diarrhea (n=72)
Watery	66	91.7
Dysentery	6	8.3
Duration of diarrhea (n=72)
Acute	64	88.9
Persistent	8	11.1
Presence of HIV	21	10.2
Presence of TB	16	7.8
presence of malaria	30	14.6
Anemia	146	71.2
severe superficial Infection	33	16.1