. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 16.

Published before final editing as: Public Health Nutr. 2018 Dec 3:1–9. doi: 10.1017/S1368980018003282

Table 2.

results of ordered logistic regression analysis comparing school grade achieved for SAM survivors vs controls (reference)

	Mean (SD) for SAM survivors (n=315)	Mean (SD) for community controls (n=178)	Unadjusted odds ratio (95% CI), p value	Adjusted odds ratio^‡ (95% CI), p value	Adjusted odds ratio^β inc. stunting (95% CI), p value
School grade achieved (SAM survivors vs controls(ref))	2.5 (1.3)	3.1 (1.6)	0.50 (0.4 to 0.7), p<0.0001	0.40 (0.3 to 0.6) p<0.0001	0.54 (0.35 to 0.81) p=0.003

^‡

adjusted for age, sex, HIV status and socioeconomic status.

^β

Adjusted for height-for-age z-score, age, sex, HIV status and socioeconomic status. Community controls are age and sex matched.