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Table 7 Mean head circumference by month of birth between April and November 2015 in the Intervention and counterfactual LGAs

From: Scaling-up the use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: results and lessons on scalability, costs and programme impact from three local government areas in Sokoto State, Nigeria

Month of birth

Intervention LGAs

Counterfactual LGA

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n

Mean

SD

n

Mean

SD

April

567

362.86

23.94

188

353.35

17.61

<0.0001

May

631

356.79

22.20

256

352.30

16.99

0.00

June

485

354.75

22.85

353

350.75

17.52

0.01

July

515

355.28

25.63

251

352.99

19.41

0.21

August

542

356.67

23.42

267

349.53

20.06

<0.0001

September

626

353.73

27.89

234

350.97

20.81

0.17

October

643

354.13

22.04

316

358.69

17.95

0.00

November

574

355.80

21.24

272

352.78

20.80

0.05