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Table 2 Mean anthropometric scores at 24 m according to the 5 pre hoc SES categories

From: Thresholds of socio-economic and environmental conditions necessary to escape from childhood malnutrition: a natural experiment in rural Gambia

Variable

Mean per SES category

P value for trend

1 upper

2 upper-middle

3 middle

4 lower-middle

5 lower

N

19

46

72

65

28

 

HAZ score

− 0.67 3,4,5

− 1.58

− 1.69 1

− 2.16 1

− 2.23 1

< 0.001

% stunted

26

37

44

54

54

 

WAZ score

− 0.90

− 1.20

− 1.35

− 1.67

− 1.64

< 0.001

% underweight

31

17

19

34

43

 

WHZ score

− 0.63

− 0.56

− 0.63

− 0.77

− 0.68

0.255

% wasted

10

4

4

9

4

 

Mothers’ heights

159.6

162.0

164.0

161.3

161.9

0.014

Fathers’ heights

173.5 4

171.3 4

170.6

167.8 1,2

170.4

< 0.001

  1. Superscripts indicate the SES groups against which values are significantly different at P < 0.01 by Scheffé’s post hoc test. For the children’s anthropometry, their parents’ heights were included in the model. Child sex was also included in the model
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