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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Oral Biol. 2007 Nov 5;53(3):231–237. doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2007.09.007

Table 3.

Multivariate Analysis Pillai’s Trace statistics for three malnutrition models with Unstimulated and stimulated salivary flows as the dependent variables

Model Dependant Variables F P-value
Malnutrition
Gender 2.821 0.06
Age 0.479 0.619
EC-PEM (Malnutrition)* 3.738 0.024
Stunting
Gender 1.536 0.216
Age 0.9 0.407
Stunting** 6.786 0.001
Stunting/Malnutrition
Gender 1.919 0.148
Age .686 0.504
Stunting** 4.804 0.008
EC-PEM (Malnutrition)* 1.254 0.286
*

dichotomous variable: referent category=no malnutrition (all of first five years of life with a z-score >−2)

**

dichotomous variable: referent category = no stunting (Height-for-age z-score >−2 (2005)