Table 3.
WLZ at birth and change in WLZ (estimate and 95 % CI) from birth to 2 years derived using a mixed-effects model to analyse data from a retrospective cohort of low-income, non-Latino and Latino children born in 2003–2004 in Baltimore, MD, USA
| Boys | Girls | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Latino (n 130; N 856) | Latino (n 107; N 812) | Non-Latino (n 123; N 851) | Latino (n 103; N 742) | |||||
| Estimate | 95 % CI | Estimate | 95 % CI | Estimate | 95 % CI | Estimate | 95 % CI | |
| WLZ at birth | −0·740 | −0·92, −0·56 | −0·467* | −0·62, −0·31 | −0·478 | −0·67, −0·29 | −0·517 | −0·69, −0·34 |
| Change in WLZ | 0·522 | 0·37, 0·67 | 0·656 | 0·51, 0·80 | 0·433 | 0·28, 0·59 | 0·574 | 0·41, 0·74 |
WLZ, weight-for-length Z-score; n, number of children; N, number of observations.
*Latino boys had a significantly higher WLZ at birth than non-Latino boys: P=0·028.