The Association between Obesity and Severity of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Children at Wangaya General Hospital

BACKGROUND: Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease caused by any one of four closely related Dengue virus (DENV 1-4). The clinical sign Dengue virus infection can vary from mild (mild febrile illness), Dengue Fever (DF), Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) to Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever with shock (Dengue Shock Syndrome, DSS). AIM: This study was designed to determine the relationship of obesity with the severity of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in children. METHODS: It is a case-control study. The data of patients were retrospectively collected from the Department of Child Health at the Wangaya General Hospital between March 2019 to May 2019. It uses consecutive sampling. The total sample of 22 children with DHF with shock and 22 children with DHF without shock were investigated. Statistical analysis has been performed by SPSS Statistics 20.0 for Mac (IBM Corp., Armonk, New York, USA). DHF positive results were compared by the Chi-square test and binary logistic regression. RESULTS: Prevalence of DHF with shock is fifty per cent's and DHF without shock is 50%. Prevalence of obesity is 40.9%. The result of binary logistic regression analysis of obesity in children and the severity of DHF was significantly correlated with P-value 0.004 and OR = 7.734. CONCLUSION: Obesity is associated with the severity of Dengue Hemorrhagic fever in children.