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. 2018 Jun 8;18:717. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5589-0

Table 2.

Sample characteristicsa

100
n
Age, monthsb 27.9 (15.1)
Sex, n (% M) 53 (53.0)
Height-for-age Z-scorec −0.76 (1.8)
Stunted, n (%)c 23 (23.5)
Weight-for-height Zd −0.33 (1.0)
Wasted, n (%)d 3 (3.1%)
Weight-for-age Z-scored −0.73 (1.2)
Underweight, n (%) 15 (15)
Malaria-positive, n (%) 1 (1.0)
Highest attained education of mother or primary caregivere
 Never went to school 9 (9.1)
 Lower primary school 14 (14.1)
 Upper primary school 42 (42.4)
 O′ level secondary school 26 (26.3)
 A’ level secondary school 3 (3.0)
 Tertiary level 4 (4.0)
Household possessionse
 Radio, n (%) 33 (33.3)
 TV, n (%) 41 (41.4)
 Electricity, n (%) 57 (57.6)

aCharacterstics of 100 Ugandan children living in an urban slum near Kampala who took part in a cross-sectional survey of blood levels of heavy metals in May 2016. bMean (sd); cn = 98; dn = 97; en = 9