Table 4.
Comparison of infants u6m with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) with and without nutritional recovery treated as outpatients with ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF)
| SAM with recovery (n 98) | SAM without recovery (n 32) | Difference | 95 % CI | OR | 95 % CI | P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | |||||||||
| Median age in days (range) | 157·5 | 61–180 | 155 | 66–179 | 3·1 | −8·6, 14·8 | 0·60 | ||
| Female | 49 | 50·0 % | 21 | 65·6 % | 0·52 | 0·24, 1·23 | 0·15 | ||
| Infant is still breast-feeding | 85/96 | 88·5 % | 23/32 | 71·9 % | 3·02 | 1·16, 7·82 | 0·045 | ||
| Anthropometry | |||||||||
| Oedema | 49 | 50·0 % | 11 | 34·4 % | 1·91 | 0·82, 4·19 | 0·15 | ||
| WLZ (infants with oedema) | −1·23 | 1·55 | −2·88 | 1·28 | 1·65 | 0·63, −2·68 | 0·0020 | ||
| WLZ (infants without oedema) | −3·52 | 0·53 | −4·05 | 0·94 | 0·53 | 0·17, −0·89 | 0·0044 | ||
| HAZ | −2·07 | 1·83 | −2·23 | 1·96 | 0·17 | −0·59, 0·92 | 0·67 | ||
| WAZ (infants with oedema) | −2·14 | 1·53 | −3·21 | 1·40 | 1·07 | 0·05, 2·10 | 0·040 | ||
| WAZ (infants without oedema) | −4·19 | 1·15 | −4·63 | 1·12 | 0·45 | −0·15, 1·05 | 0·14 | ||
| MUAC (infants with oedema) | 11·87 | 1·58 | 10·65 | 0·73 | 1·21 | 0·55, 1·87 | <0·001 | ||
| MUAC (infants without oedema) | 10·14 | 1·04 | 9·11 | 1·02 | 1·03 | 0·48, 1·58 | <0·001 | ||
| Days of illness in preceding 7 d | |||||||||
| Fever | 1·51 | 2·06 | 2·28 | 3·22 | −0·77 | −1·75, 0·20 | 0·12 | ||
| Cough | 1·97 | 2·58 | 2·97 | 2·78 | −1·00 | −2·07, 0·07 | 0·066 | ||
| Diarrhoea | 1·24 | 2·10 | 2·25 | 2·88 | −1·01 | −1·95, −0·06 | 0·037 | ||
| Vomiting | 0·57 | 1·53 | 0·38 | 0·93 | 0·20 | −0·37, 0·77 | 0·50 | ||
| Family demographics | |||||||||
| Biological mother is primary caregiver | 88 | 91·7 % | 27 | 87·1 % | 1·63 | 0·51, 5·24 | 0·49 | ||
| Biological mother is alive | 88/92 | 95·7 % | 29/29 | 100·0 % | * | 0·57 | |||
| Biological father is alive | 47/48 | 97·9 % | 11/11 | 100·0 % | * | 1·00 | |||
| Biological father lives in the home | 35/48 | 72·9 % | 8/11 | 72·7 % | 1·01 | 0·26, 4·46 | 1·00 | ||
| Mother has had HIV test | 58/72 | 80·6 % | 23/27 | 85·2 % | 0·72 | 0·24, 2·23 | 0·77 | ||
| Mother has had positive HIV test | 11/56 | 19·6 % | 13/23 | 56·5 % | 0·19 | 0·28, 0·65 | 0·0025 | ||
WLZ, weight-for-length Z-score; HAZ, height-for-age Z-score; WAZ, weight-for-age Z-score.
*
OR cannot be computed due to non-zero values.