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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 25.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2011 Jan;22(1):118–126. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181fe7e31

TABLE 3.

Pretreatment Growth Velocitya by Selected Factors Among School-age Andean Children

No. Growth Velocity (cm/Month)
Unadjusted
Age-adjusted
Mean SE (95% CI) Mean SE (95% CI)
Total 318 0.437 0.010 (0.414–0.421)
Sex
 Boys 163 0.436 0.010 (0.416–0.455) 0.434 0.010 (0.415–0.452)
 Girls 154 0.439 0.010 (0.419–0.459) 0.441 0.010 (0.422–0.461)
H. pylori status
 Negative 64 0.435 0.016 (0.404–0.467) 0.423 0.015 (0.393–0.454)
 Positive 243 0.438 0.008 (0.421–0.454) 0.441 0.008 (0.425–0.456)
Community
 Nariño-Genoy 160 0.394 0.009 (0.375–0.412) 0.397 0.009 (0.379–0.415)
 La Laguna-Cabrera 158 0.482 0.010 (0.463–0.501) 0.479 0.009 (0.461–0.497)
Community (adjusted)b
 Nariño-Genoy 160 0.396 0.009 (0.377–0.414)
 La Laguna-Cabrera 158 0.482 0.010 (0.463–0.502)
a

Over the 6 months after baseline assessment.

b

Adjusted for age, sex, H. pylori status, and baseline height. Covariate values in model used for adjustment (mean at baseline): age in months = 75.7343; sex = 1.49; H. pylori status = 0.79; height in cm = 109.2915.