Table 2.
Nutritional characteristics of the study group
| Infection status | Intensity of infections | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nutritional indicators | Infected | Non-infected | p-valueb | Light | Moderate | Heavy | p-valuec |
| Stunted (< − 2 SD HAZ) | 45 (39.5) | 69 (60.5) | 0.797 | 19 (42.2) | 15 (33.3) | 11 (24.4) | 0.519 |
| Underweight (<− 2 SD WAZ) | 89 (40.5) | 131 (59.5) | 0.409 | 44 (49.4) | 32 (36.0) | 13 (14.6) | 0.259 |
| Wasted (< − 2 SD WHZ) | 35 (35.7) | 63 (64.3) | 0.534 | 23 (65.7) | 10 (28.6) | 2 (5.7) | 0.123 |
| Mean HAZ scorea | −1.32 (1.19) | − 1.21 (1.10) | 0.309 | − 1.13 (1.35) | − 1.39 (1.02) | − 1.69 (0.84) | 0.055 |
| Mean WAZ scorea | − 1.83 (0.85) | − 1.74 (0.94) | 0.276 | − 1.82 (0.94) | − 1.89 (0.72) | −1.80 (0.82) | 0.674 |
| Mean WHZ scorea | −1.65 (0.96) | −1.63 (1.08) | 0.884 | −1.28 (1.03) | − 1.62 (0.80) | −1.80 (0.92) | 0.090 |
aFor continuous variables, values in parentheses are the standard deviation
bIndependent t-test used for continuous variables and chi-square test used for discrete variables
cOne-way ANOVA used for continuous variables and chi-square test used for discrete variables