significant (OR = 3.00, 95%CI 1.20-7.48). These
findings suggest a direct correlation between
increasingly being overweight and the severity
of DHF, which agrees with Halstead (1980) who
found that DSS is rarely seen in clinically-malnourished
children. Thisayakorn and Nimmanitya
(1993) reported rare finding of DHF in undernourished
children.