Severe Malarial Anemia is Associated With Long-term Neurocognitive Impairment | Zendy

Paul Bangirana | Zendy; Robert O. Opoka | Zendy; Michael J. Boivin | Zendy; Richard Idro | Zendy; James S. Hodges | Zendy; Regilda A. Romero | Zendy; Elsa Shapiro | Zendy; Chandy C. John | Zendy

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Severe Malarial Anemia is Associated With Long-term Neurocognitive Impairment

Author(s) -

Paul Bangirana,

Robert O. Opoka,

Michael J. Boivin,

Richard Idro,

James S. Hodges,

Regilda A. Romero,

Elsa Shapiro,

Chandy C. John

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciu293

Subject(s) - neurocognitive , medicine , sma* , pediatrics , cognition , effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance , anemia , audiology , psychiatry , mathematics , combinatorics

Cerebral malaria (CM) is associated with long-term neurocognitive impairment in children ≥5 years of age. No prospective studies to date have assessed neurocognitive impairment in children with CM <5 years of age, or in children with severe malarial anemia (SMA), a form of severe malaria estimated to affect as many as 5 million children annually.

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