Table 2.
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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