Table 2.
Outcomes stratified by age for infants u6m with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) treated as outpatients, with contemporaneous comparison to infants older than 6 months, stratified by age at enrollment
| SAM ≤ 180 d (n 130) | SAM 181–270 d (n 74)* | Difference | 95 % CI | OR | 95 % CI | P value | SAM ≤ 120 d (n 19) | SAM 121–150 d (n 31) | SAM 151–180 d (n 80) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recovered | 98 | 75·4 % | 56 | 75·7 % | 0·98 | 0·50, 1·91 | 1·00 | 16 | 84·2 % | 21 | 67·7 % | 61 | 76·3 % | ||
| Duration of therapy until recovery (d) | 31·5 | 17·8 | 36·9 | 23·4 | −5·5 | −12·2, 1·3 | 0·11 | 31·1 | 16·2 | 35·6 | 17·8 | 30·2 | 18·0 | ||
| Weight gain among infants that recover (g/kg/d) | 4·7 | 4·4 | 3·7 | 4·1 | 0·9 | −0·4, 2·3 | 0·18 | 4·6 | 6·6 | 5·3 | 2·6 | 4·4 | 4·1 | ||
| Failed to recover | 32 | 24·6 % | 18 | 24·3 % | 3 | 15·8 % | 10 | 32·3 % | 19 | 23·8 % | |||||
| Remained malnourished after 12 weeks | 7 | 5·4 % | 4 | 5·4 % | 1 | 5·3 % | 3 | 9·7 % | 3 | 3·8 % | |||||
| Hospitalised | 4 | 3·1 % | 3 | 4·1 % | 0 | 0·0 % | 1 | 3·2 % | 3 | 3·8 % | |||||
| Died | 4 | 3·1 % | 10 | 13·5 % | 0 | 0·0 % | 1 | 3·2 % | 3 | 3·8 % | |||||
| Lost to follow-up | 17 | 13·1 % | 1 | 1·4 % | 2 | 10·5 % | 5 | 16·1 % | 10 | 12·5 % | |||||
SAM, severe acute malnutrition.
*
Placebo arm from contemporaneous SAM clinical trial(50).