Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of study subjects
| Scores | Baseline characteristics* | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age † (months) | Body weight (kg) | Body height (kg) | Haemoglobin (g dL−1) | Ferritin (μg L−1) | ||||||
| Study 1 | Study 2 | Study 1 | Study 2 | Study 1 | Study 2 | Study 1 | Study 2 | Study 1 | Study 2 | |
| Mean | 11.5 | 11.5 | 9.5 | 9.3 | 74.7 | 74.0 | 12.1 | 11.7 | 88.3 | 75.6 |
| SD | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 74.1 | 81.2 |
| Median | 11.0 | 11.0 | 9.1 | 9.2 | 74.0 | 73.0 | 11.9 | 11.7 | 56.0 | 46.5 |
SD, standard deviation. *All baseline characteristics of study 1 and study 2 are not significantly different at P = 0.05. †Age distribution: 6–11 months (17): study 1: 8; study 2: 9; 12–24 months (13): study 1: 7; study 2: 6.