Table 1.
Study characteristics table
| Country | Study | Recruitment years | Study intervention | Children aged 6–59 months | No follow‐up episodes | Duration of anthropometric follow‐up in months Median (Range) | Loss to follow‐up (%) | Total deaths (with or without anthropometric deficit) | Deaths (girls) N (%) | Deaths (boys) N (%) | Deaths 6–23 m age group N (%) | Deaths 24–59 m age group N (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRC | Van Den Broeck (1993) | 1989–1993 | Longitudinal health and nutrition monitoring | 4584 | 17,918 | 11 [0–10] | No info | 196 | 91 (46.4) | 105 (53.6) | 122 (62.2) | 74 (38.8) |
| Guinea‐Bissau | Mølbak (1992) | 1987–1990 | Child mortality audit | 985 | 4,385 | 11 [0–37] | No info | 118 | 66 (55.9) | 52 (44.1) | 86 (72.9) | 32 (27.1) |
| Indonesia | Katz (1989) | 1977 | Longitudinal nutrition monitoring | 3806 | 17,367 | 15 [0–18] | 7.8% | 214 | 104 (48.6) | 110 (51.4) | 121 (56.5) | 93 (43.5) |
| Nepal | West (1991) | 1989 | Vitamin A RCT | 5883 | 25,159 | 16 [0–25] | 6% | 128 | 70 (54.7) | 58(45.3) | 73 (57.0) | 55 (43.0%) |
| Philippines | Adair (1993) | 1982–1983 | Longitudinal Health and nutrition survey | 2823 | 25,031 | 18 [0–19] | 11.9% | 233 | 99 (42.5) | 134 (57.5) | 233 (100) | 0 (0) |
| Senegal | Garenne (1987) | 1983 | Longitudinal nutrition survey | 5142 | 12,615 | 11 [0–19] | 12.2% | 327 | 166 (50.8) | 161 (49.2) | 196 (59.9) | 131 (40.1) |
| Sudan | Fawzi (1997) | 1988 | Longitudinal nutrition survey/Vitamin A RCT | 22532 | 64,280 | 12 [0–19] | 16% | 135 | 82 (60.7) | 53 (39.3) | 75 (55.6) | 60 (44.4) |
| Total | 45,755 | 166,755 | 1,351 | 678 (50.2) | 673 (49.8) | 906 (67.1) | 445 (32.9) | |||||