Table 6. Nutritional indicators according to infection status among indigenous longhouse children.
Intestinal Parasitic Infections (IPIs) | |||||||||||
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Variables | All children | Any IPIs | Mono-parasitism | Poly-parasitism | |||||||
N = 144 | N = 82 | N = 58 | N = 10 | ||||||||
n | % | n | % | p value | n | % | p value | n | % | p value | |
Nutritional Indicators | |||||||||||
Stunted (<-2SD HAZ) | 51 | 35.4 | 26 | 31.7 | 0.284 | 18 | 31.0 | 0.367 | 3 | 30.0 | 0.710 |
Wasting (<-2SD BAZ) | 8 | 5.6 | 4 | 4.9 | 0.683 | 4 | 6.9 | 0.564 | 0 | 0 | 0.427 |
Underweight (<-2SD WAZ) | 32 | 31.7 | 18 | 28.6 | 0.387 | 13 | 28.3 | 0.499 | 3 | 37.5 | 0.712 |
N: Number examined; n: Number positive