Pediatric Dehydration and Metabolic Acidosis Risk Factors

A retrospective study of 328 children hospitalized with acute dehydration, aiming to identify risk factors for metabolic acidosis. The dataset includes anamnestic, clinical, and anthropometric factors for children aged 3 months to 15 years. It was authored by Juraj Stanik and last updated on 2026-05-25.

Use Cases

• Predicting metabolic acidosis risk in dehydrated children based on clinical factors like dehydration severity and BMI.
• Analyzing the association between oral intake status and metabolic acidosis development.
• Investigating the relationship between the absence of diarrhea and metabolic acidosis in pediatric patients.

Strengths

• Includes data from 328 pediatric patients.
• Defines metabolic acidosis with specific clinical thresholds (pH < 7.36, HCO₃ < 22 mmol/L).
• Reports multivariate logistic regression results identifying significant associations.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and source bias inherent to a single retrospective study.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Retrospective analysis of hospital records.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-25 04:34:44; freshness should be verified.