Table 3.

Anthropometric indices of the infants according to the distributions of maternal UIC

Maternal UIC	Infant HAZ (Mean ± SD)	Infant WAZ (Mean ± SD)
< 50 μg/L	−0.36 ± 1.78	0.12 ± 1.47
50–99 μg/L	0.22 ± 2.40	0.57 ± 1.64
100–199 μg/L	0.12 ± 2.21	0.40 ± 1.61
200–299 μg/L	−0.23 ± 2.24	0.41 ± 1.51
> 299 μg/L	−0.05 ± 2.10	0.33 ± 1.77
P valuea	0.296	0.614

SD standard deviation, UIC urinary iodine concentration, HAZ height-for-age Z-score, WAZ weight-for-age Z-score, BMI body mass index

^aANOVA was used to compare the mean anthropometric index between different groups