Table 4.
Association between clinical features and presence of hypoxaemia at presentation.
| Clinical features |
Hypoxaemic N = 81 (%) |
Nonhypoxaemic N = 339 (%) |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration of symptoms | |||
| ≤3 days | 46 (56.8) | 198 (58.4) | 0.769 |
| >3 days | 35 (43.2) | 140 (41.3) | |
| Total | 81 (100.0) | 339 (100.0) | |
| Gastroenteritis | 16 (19.8) | 68 (20.1) | 1.000 |
| T < 36.5°C | 6 (7.4) | 10 (2.9) | 0.119* |
| Hyperpyrexia | 6 (7.4) | 19 (5.6) | 0.538 |
| RR ≥ 70 cpm | 16 (19.8) | 46 (13.6) | 0.159 |
| Grunting | 49 (60.5) | 77 (22.7) | 0.000 |
| Cyanosis | 16 (19.8) | 1 (0.3) | 0.000** |
| Head nodding | 28 (34.6) | 53 (15.6) | 0.000 |
| Inability to suck/feed | 7 (8.6) | 21 (6.2) | 0.428 |
| Heart failure | 21 (25.9) | 32 (9.4) | 0.000 |
| Convulsion | 2 (2.5) | 21 (6.2) | 0.185** |
| Somnolence/lethargy | 1 (1.2) | 12 (3.5) | 0.472** |
| +Underweight | 28 (34.6) | 122 (36.0) | 0.811 |
| +Stunting | 11 (13.5) | 60 (17.7) | 0.374 |
| +Severe wasting | 18 (22.2) | 68 (20.1) | 0.665 |
| !Oedematous PEM | 1 (1.2) | 8 (2.4) | 0.530** |
*Yate's correction applied. **Fisher's exact test applied. +WHO/NCHS classification: underweight = weight for age < −2 SD; stunting = height for age < −2 SD, while severe wasting = weight for height < −3 SD from the mean. The figures in parentheses are percentages of the total in each column. RR: respiratory rate, cpm: cycles per minute, and T: axillary temperature. !Kwashiorkor and Marasmic kwashiorkor.