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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 37, 645-651, Copyright © 1983 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Interactions of community nutritional status and xerophthalmia in Indonesia

I Tarwotjo, R Tilden, S Pettiss, A Sommer, S Soedibjo, G Hussaini, JS Sulistijo and H Nendrawati

In order to determine which community level factors best explain the variation in the prevalence of xerophthalmia, an analysis was done on risk factors of xerophthalmia from the Indonesian Nutritional Blindness Study (1976 to 1979). Because of the common belief that xerophthalmia is closely linked to malnutrition, and the fact that within the study itself, it was demonstrated that children with xerophthalmia had a much higher prevalence of malnutrition than normal children, the relationship between the prevalence of malnutrition and the prevalence of xerophthalmia was explored. Using two different statistical approaches the prevalence of malnutrition within a community could not be demonstrated to be a good predictor of the prevalence of xerophthalmia within that community.




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