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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 17.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Clin Nutr. 2014 Jul 2;68(10):1124–1128. doi: 10.1038/ejcn.2014.100

Table 3.

Mean hemoglobin and ferritin in children aged 12–59 months, Jordan 2002 and 2010.

Indicator 2002
2010
P-valuea
n Mean (95% CI) n Mean (95% CI)
Hemoglobin (g/l)b,c 1059 117.2 (116.3, 118.1) 902 118.4 (117.5, 119.3) 0.07
Ferritin (ng/ml)d 1056 18.1 (17.1, 19.2) 940 24.4 (23.0, 25.9) <0.001

Abbreviation: CI, confidence interval. Note: the n’s are unweighted denominators for each subgroup. Means are weighted. CI, adjusted for cluster sampling design.

a

2002 and 2010 means for each indicator compared using weighted t-tests.

b

Hemoglobin is not adjusted for altitude.

c

Arithmetic mean.

d

Geometric mean.