TABLE 2.

Nutritional status of 814 children with diarrhea and 814 matched control children without diarrhea

Parameter (in ≤−2.0 Z score)a	% with a Z score of ≤−2		P value
	Diarrheal children	Control children
Wt for age	56.0	51.4	0.20
Ht for age	45.2	42.4	0.32
Wt for ht	22.0	18.9	0.24

^aIndicates poor nutritional status.