Table 3.
Multiple variable regression models with birth weight and LBW as main outcomes and baseline maternal arm measurements as main predictors in 1005 HIV-infected Malawian women.
| Main predictor | Birth weight1 (g) | LBW2 (<2500 g) | ||||||
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| β | P | 95% CI | Odds Ratio | P | 95% CI | |||
| Model 1: | ||||||||
| Arm muscle area (cm2) | 6.88 | <0.01 | 2.51 | 11.26 | 0.95 | 0.03 | 0.91 | 0.99 |
| Arm fat area (cm2) | 6.97 | <0.01 | 3.53 | 10.41 | 0.97 | 0.08 | 0.94 | 1 |
| Model 2: | ||||||||
| MUAC (cm) | 31.84 | <0.01 | 22.18 | 41.49 | 0.85 | <0.01 | 0.77 | 0.94 |
1
Estimated with multiple linear regression; covariates include maternal height, age, parity, education, place of delivery (hospital, home), CD4 cell count, infant sex, infant HIV status at birth.
2
Estimated with multivariate logistic regression models with covariates described in footnote 1.