TABLE 3.
Pretreatment Growth Velocitya by Selected Factors Among School-age Andean Children
| No. | Growth Velocity (cm/Month)
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| Unadjusted
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Age-adjusted
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| 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) | |||
Over the 6 months after baseline assessment.
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.