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. 2010 Apr 30;10:32. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-10-32

Table 2.

Infant nutritional status at the age of six and twelve months stratified by antenatal and postnatal maternal CMD

Scale of outcome Timing and level of CMD SRQ > = 6 indicating higher level of morbidity Six month time point One year time point

Nutritional status as binary outcome Underweight Number (%) Stunting Number(%) Underweight Number(%) Stunting number(%)

Pregnancy
 Low SRQ score 161(21.0) 205(26.9) 167(20.5) 386(47.8)
 High SRQ score 27(27.6) 25(25.0) 28(25.7) 55(50.9)
  P-value* 0.15 0.72 0.21 0.54
Two month postnatal
 Low SRQ score 182(22.0) 220(26.8) 188(21.4) 421(48.3)
 High SRQ score 6(15.8) 10(25.6) 6(14.3) 18(43.9)
  p-value* 0.43 1.00 0.34 0.63
Pregnancy or postnatal
 Low SRQ at all time point 160(21.3) 201(26.9) 162(20.5) 375(47.7)
 High SRQ score at both time points 5(21.7) 6(25.0) 2(8.3) 9(39.1)
 High SRQ score at Postnatal only 1(6.7) 4(26.7) 4(22.2) 9(50.0)
 High SRQ score at Pregnancy only 22(29.3) 19(25.0) 26(30.6) 46(54.1)
  p-value* 0.22 0.99 0.07 0.56

Nutritional status as continuous outcome

Weight-for-age Z score Mean(SE) Height-for-age Z-score Mean(SE) Weight-for-age Z score Mean(SE) Height-for-age Z-score Mean(SE)

Pregnancy
 Low SRQ score -1.08(0.05) -1.07(0.06) -1.05(0.04) -2.03(0.05)
 High SRQ score -1.20(0.14) -1.17(0.14) -1.16(0.14) -2.08(0.17)
  P-value* 0.38 0.55 0.37 0.74
Two month postnatal
 Low SRQ score -1.10(0.04) -1.08(0.06) -1.07(0.04) -2.03(0.05)
 High SRQ score -0.84(0.18) -1.15(0.25) -0.93(0.15) -2.15(0.24)
  p-value* 0.21 0.79 0.50 0.63
Pregnancy or postnatal
 Low SRQ at all time point -1.11(0.05) -1.10(0.06) -1.06(0.05) -2.05(0.05)
 High SRQ score at both time points -1.28(0.16) -1.17(0.15) -1.32(0.16) -2.10(0.19)
 High SRQ score at Postnatal only -0.70(0.20) -1.11(0.41) -1.27(0.19) -2.25(0.27)
 High SRQ score at Pregnancy only -0.93(0.27) -1.18(0.31) -0.67(0.20) -2.07(0.38)
  p-value* 0.95 0.92 0.12 0.92