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TableĀ 3 Malaria and anaemia episodes effects on the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) scores for both cohorts combined (HUU and HEU)

From: Malaria illness mediated by anaemia lessens cognitive development in younger Ugandan children

MSEL outcome scores

Malaria episodes effects

Anaemia episodes effects

Model 1: not controlling for anaemia episodes

Model 3: controlling for anaemia episodes

Model 2: not controlling for malaria episodes

Model 3: controlling for malaria episodes

Coef (SE)

P value

Coef (SE)

P value

Coef (SE)

P value

Coef (SE)

P value

Composite

āˆ’0.22 (0.09)

0.02*

āˆ’0.16 (0.10)

0.13

āˆ’0.23 (0.09)

0.01**

āˆ’0.17 (0.10)

0.10

Visual reception

āˆ’0.12 (0.08)

0.12

āˆ’0.04 (0.09)

0.63

āˆ’0.23 (0.08)

<0.01**

āˆ’0.21 (0.09)

0.02*

Fine motor

āˆ’0.19 (0.07)

<0.01**

āˆ’0.17 (0.08)

0.03*

āˆ’0.14 (0.07)

0.07

āˆ’0.07 (0.08)

0.42

Receptive language

āˆ’0.16 (0.08)

0.04*

āˆ’0.12 (0.08)

0.15

āˆ’0.17 (0.08)

0.03*

āˆ’0.12 (0.09)

0.14

Expressive language

āˆ’0.08 (0.08)

0.39

āˆ’0.05 (0.08)

0.54

āˆ’0.08 (0.08)

0.36

āˆ’0.05 (0.09)

0.56

Gross motor T score

āˆ’0.01 (0.03)

0.74

0.01 (0.03)

0.86

āˆ’0.03 (0.03)

0.19

āˆ’0.03 (0.03)

0.21

  1. *Ā PĀ <Ā 0.05; **Ā PĀ <Ā 0.01