Exploring the relationship between chronic undernutrition and asymptomatic malaria in Ghanaian children

Malaria Journal

Table 3 Relations of stunting, anaemia and spleen size to asymptomatic malaria

Independent Variable	N	Odds Ratio	95% CI
Stunting¹
None	74	1.00	--
Mild	60	2.23	0.99, 5.02
Moderate	26	0.56	0.16, 1.69
Severe	12	1.02	0.20, 3.76
Anaemia²
No	74	1.00	--
Yes	98	4.15	1.92, 8.98
Spleen Size	172	2.17	1.44, 3.28

¹Stunting: None = -1 ≤ z-score, Mild = -2 ≤ z-score < -1, Moderate = -3 ≤ z-score < -2, Severe = z-score < -3
²Anaemia: <11.0 haemoglobin (g/dl)
Variables not retained in the model: fast breathing, sex of child, age of child

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