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TableĀ 4 Malaria and anaemia episodes effects on the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) scores for the HUU cohort

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 cognitive total

āˆ’0.13 (0.11)

0.26

āˆ’0.08 (0.12)

0.54

āˆ’0.17 (0.11)

0.13

āˆ’0.14 (0.12)

0.25

Visual reception

āˆ’0.05 (0.09)

0.58

0.01 (0.10)

0.88

āˆ’0.17 (0.10)

0.08

āˆ’0.18 (0.11)

0.10

Fine motor

āˆ’0.16 (0.08)

0.04*

āˆ’0.12 (0.08)

0.18

āˆ’0.19 (0.09)

0.03*

āˆ’0.14 (0.10)

0.14

Receptive language

āˆ’0.06 (0.09)

0.48

āˆ’0.03 (0.09)

0.74

āˆ’0.11 (0.09)

0.20

āˆ’0.10 (0.10)

0.30

Expressive language

āˆ’0.04 (0.09)

0.61

āˆ’0.04 (0.10)

0.67

āˆ’0.04 (0.09)

0.65

āˆ’0.02 (0.11)

0.82

Gross motor T score

0.01 (0.03)

0.71

0.02 (0.03)

0.48

āˆ’0.02 (0.03)

0.43

āˆ’0.03 (0.03)

0.32

  1. *Ā PĀ <Ā 0.05; **Ā PĀ <Ā 0.01