Table 5.

Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios for diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection in the last 2 weeks in infants exclusively breastfed at 0-3 month(s) compared with infants who were not exclusively breastfed (n=1,633)

Disease	No. with symptoms	Percentage	Prevalence in the last 2 weeks		Percentage of difference	Odds ratio (95% CI)	p value	Adjusted odds ratio∗ (95% CI)	p value†
			Non-exclusively breastfed group %	Exclusively breastfed group %
Diarrhoea	234	14.3	16.7	9.8	6.9	0.54 (0.39-0.74)	<0.0001	0.69 (0.49-0.98)	0.038
Acute respiratory infection	509	31.2	35.5	23.0	12.5	0.55 (0.43-0.69)	<0.0001	0.69 (0.54-0.88)	0.003

∗Adjusted for gender and age of child, number of siblings in household, stratum, ownership of household, source of drinking-water, place of disposal of faeces, and education of mothers; ^†p value adjusted for cluster sampling CI=Confdence interval