Titre :
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Outbreak of beriberi among illegal mainland Chinese immigrants at a detention center in Taiwan. (2003)
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Auteurs :
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Kow-Tong CHEN ;
Hong-Jen CHANG ;
Shu-Ti CHIOU ;
Wen-Harn PAN ;
Mary-K SERDULA ;
Shiing-Jer TWU ;
Center for Disease Control. Department of Health. TWN
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Public health reports (vol. 118, n° 1, 2003)
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Pagination :
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59-64
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Immigration
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Prison
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Facteur risque
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Homme
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Epidémiologie
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Taiwan
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Asie
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Maladie nutrition
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 7R0xqPQN. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objective. The authors describe an outbreak of beriberi in a detention center in Taiwan and examine risk factors for illness. Methods. A survey was conducted among a sample of 176 randomly selected detainees. A menu-assisted dietary recall method was used to obtain diet information from nine hospitalized detainees. A probable case patient was defined as an individual who had at least two of the following characteristics : leg edema, weakness of the extremities, poor appetite, and dyspnea. Possible case patients were those who had only one of these characteristics. Results. Of the 176 survey respondents, 19% were classified as probable case patients and 40% as possible case patients. The mortality rate based on probable cases was 1.1%. Body Mass Index (BMI) was negatively associated with illness (p
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