. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Nutrition. 2013 Nov-Dec;29(0):1336–1341. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2013.05.023

Table 1.

Selected characteristics of Peruvian infants at enrollment by supplement type

Characteristic	Iron + copper + zinc (N=101)	Iron + copper (N=108)
Age (mo)	6.3 ± 0.1	6.3 ± 0.1
Girl (%)	53.2	43.3
Weight (kg) WAZ Length (cm) LAZ	8.2 ± 1.0 0.5 ± 1.0 66.0 ± 2.1 −0.5 ± 0.9	8.1 ± 0.7 0.4 ± 0.7 65.8 ± 1.9 −0.6 ± 0.8
Maternal age (y) Maternal schooling (y) Persons per bedroom^‡ Dirt or temporary floor (%)	27.4 ± 6.1 11.3 ± 2.2 2.0 (1.7, 2.7) 24.4	27.3 ± 5.6 11.2 ± 3.0 2.0 (1.5, 3.0) 30.8

^‡

Median (25^th, 75^th percentiles). No differences by supplement type were found, P < 0.05.