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Table 2.

Enrolment characteristics of children (n 81; aged 25–59 months) treated for moderate acute malnutrition, Centre region of Cameroon, February–July 2012

	CSB+ group		RUSF group
Baseline characteristic	n or Mean	% or sd	n or Mean	% or sd
Per group, n and %	41	51·25	40	48·75
Female, n and %	24 ^a	58·54	25 ^a	62·50
Age (months), mean and sd	24·9^a	16·60	24·41^a	14·30
Height (cm), mean and sd	80·69^a	14·25	79·49^a	12·09
Weight (kg), mean and sd	8·31^a	2·97	7·89^a	2·39
MUAC (cm), mean and sd	12·91^a	1·23	12·96^a	0·97
WHZ, mean and sd	−2·44^a	0·26	−2·35^a	0·22
HAZ, mean and sd	−2·15^a	1·80	−1·96^a	1·63
WAZ, mean and sd	−2·79^a	1·07	−2·62^a	0·95
FCS, mean and sd	31·20^a	6·90	32·70^a	7·00
Food consumption category, n and %
Poor food consumption	7	17·07	6	15·00
Borderline food consumption	27	65·85	26	65·00
Acceptable food consumption	7	17·07	8	20·00
Live with the two parents, n and %	26 ^a	63·42	23 ^a	57·50

CSB+, improved corn–soya blend; RUSF, ready-to-use supplementary food; MUAC, mid-upper arm circumference; WHZ, weight-for-height Z-score; HAZ, height-for-age Z-score; WAZ, weight-for-age Z-score; FCS, food consumption score.

^a,bValues in the same line not sharing a common superscript were significantly different (P<0·05) according to Fisher’s exact tests (dichotomous variables) or Student’s t test (continuous variables).