Table 2.
Number (N) of children with Congenital Zika Syndromea, with registered anthropometric measurements, and number (n) and proportion (%) of those who had deficit (z-score < − 2SD) for the Weight/Age (W/A), Length/Age (L/A), Weight/Length (W/L) and Head Circumference/ Age (HC/A), according to sex and age. Bahiab, Brazil, November 2017
| Age (months) | Anthropometric indexes | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W/A | L/A | W/L | HC/A | |||||||||
| N | < -2SD | N | < −2SD | N | < −2SD | N | < −2SD | |||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||||
| 0c | 45 | 9 | 20.0 | 28 | 11 | 39.3 | 22 | 5 | 22.7 | 34 | 26 | 76.5 |
| 1 | 25 | 2 | 8.0 | 16 | 5 | 31.3 | 15 | 1 | 6.7 | 20 | 17 | 85.0 |
| 2 | 13 | 3 | 23.1 | 8 | 5 | 62.5 | 8 | 1 | 12.5 | 9 | 9 | 100.0 |
| 3 | 15 | 3 | 20.0 | 10 | 5 | 50.0 | 10 | 1 | 10.0 | 12 | 10 | 83.3 |
| 4 | 17 | 5 | 29.4 | 9 | 3 | 33.3 | 9 | - | - | 14 | 12 | 85.7 |
| 5 | 17 | 5 | 29.4 | 13 | 4 | 30.8 | 11 | 1 | 9.1 | 12 | 9 | 75.0 |
| 6 | 19 | 4 | 21.1 | 11 | 4 | 36.4 | 11 | - | - | 13 | 13 | 100.0 |
| 7 | 12 | 2 | 16.7 | 8 | 3 | 37.5 | 8 | - | - | 6 | 4 | 66.7 |
| 8 | 10 | 4 | 40.0 | 6 | 4 | 66.7 | 6 | 1 | 16.7 | 7 | 6 | 85.7 |
| 9 | 18 | 4 | 22.2 | 13 | 4 | 30.8 | 13 | 1 | 7.7 | 15 | 13 | 86.7 |
| 10 | 12 | 3 | 25.0 | 8 | 4 | 50.0 | 8 | - | - | 8 | 8 | 100.0 |
| 11 | 8 | - | - | 7 | 3 | 42.9 | 7 | - | - | 6 | 6 | 100.0 |
| 12 | 15 | 2 | 13.3 | 14 | 4 | 28.6 | 14 | 2 | 14.3 | 12 | 11 | 91.7 |
| Total | 226 | 46 | 20.4 | 151 | 59 | 39.1 | 142 | 13 | 9.2 | 168 | 144 | 85.7 |
SD standard deviation, N number of children with available anthropometric measurements, at each age (in months), in medical records, n number of children with anthropometric index equivalent to a value less than − 2 SD according to age and sex
aChildren born between October 2015 and May 2017
bOnly 22 municipalities
cAt birth