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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 10.
Published in final edited form as: Food Nutr Bull. 2011 Sep;32(3):185–191. doi: 10.1177/156482651103200301

TABLE 3.

Length-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for-length, and head circumference z-scores (mean ± SD)

Site Total n Length-for-age Weight-for-age Weight-for-length Head circumference

n z-score n z-score n z-score n z-score

Democratic Republic of Congo 420 420 −2.8 ± 2.01 418 −1.67 ± 1.59 414 −0.53 ± 2.23 420 −0.67 ± 1.46
Zambia 386 380 −1.91 ± 1.43 357 −0.76 ± 1.85 355 0.1 ± 3.39 380 −0.57 ± 1.81
Guatemala 336 336 −2.34 ± 1.51 329 −0.94 ± 0.95 327 0.23 ± 0.83 336 −0.81 ± 1.65
Pakistan 516 512 −1.91 ± 1.74 496 −1.42 ± 2.13 491 −0.82 ± 3.32 512 −0.98 ± 2.18

All sites 1,658 1648 −2.22 ± 1.75 1,600 −1.24 ± 1.77 1,587 −0.32 ± 2.76 1,648 −0.77 ± 1.83