Table 1. Age distribution, length/height-for-age Z-scores (HAZ), and weight-for-length/height Z-score (WHZ) for children with different clinical nutritional status.

Z-scores based on the WHO-2006 Child Growth Standards [17].

	Age in month			HAZ			WHZ
	Q10	Q50	Q90	Q10	Q50	Q90	Q10	Q50	Q90
Kwashiorkor	15.9	26.5	38.4	−4.3	−2.3	−0.8	−2.5	−1.0	0.1
Reference population	7.4	35.9	66.5	−2.9	−1.4	−0.1	−1.4	−0.1	1.2
Marasmus	10.8	28.8	64.0	−4.5	−2.7	−1.2	−2.8	−1.3	0.1