Table 2.

Characteristics of study participants with SAM and healthy control children.

	Healthy controls	SAM	P
	N = 7	N = 57
Age [months; mean (SD)]	52.9 (22.1)	22.9 (15.7)	< 0.001
Male [n (%)]	4 (57.1)	35 (61.4)	0.83
MUAC [mean (SD)]	15.1 (2.0)	11.2 (1.6)	< 0.001

MUAC mid upper arm circumference.