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Table 3 Association between nutritional status and malaria incidence

From: Nutritional status in young children prior to the malaria transmission season in Burkina Faso and Mali, and its impact on the incidence of clinical malaria

 

No of episodes

Rate per 1000 person-years

Unadjusted

Adjusteda

Fully adjustedb

Adjusted P-value

Rate ratio (95% CI)

Rate ratio (95% CI)

Rate ratio (95% CI)

Burkina Faso

 Height-for-age

  Normal

274

685 (608–771)

1

1

1

 

 Moderately stunted

126

729 (612–868)

1.05 (0.84–1.31)

1.11 (0.89–1.39)

1.08 (0.86–1.36)

0.49

  Severely stunted

62

550 (429–706)

0.78 (0.58–1.04)

0.88 (0.65–1.18)

0.86 (0.63–1.17)

0.34

Mali

 Height-for-age

  Normal

491

1318 (1207–1440)

1

1

1

 

  Moderately stunted

196

1252 (1089–1440)

0.95 (0.80–1.13)

0.94 (0.79–1.12)

0.94 (0.78–1.13)

0.53

  Severely stunted

119

1033 (863–1236)

0.78 (0.63–0.96)

0.80 (0.64–0.99)

0.81 (0.64–1.02)

0.08

Burkina Faso

 Weight-for-age

  Normal

281

654 (581–735)

1

1

1

 

  Moderately underweight

114

859 (715–1032)

1.29 (1.02–1.62)

1.29 (1.02–1.63)

1.27 (0.98–1.64)

0.07

  Severely underweight

67

545 (429–692)

0.83 (0.63–1.10)

0.94 (0.71–1.25)

0.94 (0.66–1.34)

0.75

Mali

 Weight-for-age

  Normal

578

1277 (1177–1286)

1

1

1

 

  Moderately underweight

165

1314 (1128–1531)

1.02 (0.85–1.23)

1.05 (0.87–1.26)

1.07 (0.88–1.32)

0.48

  Severely underweight

63

951 (743–1218)

0.74 (0.56–0.97)

0.77 (0.58–1.01)

0.82 (0.60–1.13)

0.23

Burkina Faso

 Weight-for-height/length

  Normal

353

688 (619–763)

1

1

1

 

  Moderately wasted

58

674 (521–872)

0.98 (0.72–1.32)

1.04 (0.77–1.40)

1.00 (0.73–1.36)

1

  Severely wasted

58

599 (463–774)

0.88 (0.65–1.18)

0.94 (0.69–1.26)

0.91 (0.66–1.27)

0.59

Mali

 Weight-for-height/length

  Normal

714

1260 (1171–1356)

1

1

1

 

  Moderately wasted

84

1376 (1111–1704)

1.02 (0.85–1.23)

1.21 (0.94–1.56)

1.27 (0.98–1.64)

0.07

  Severely wasted

49

1142 (864–1512)

0.74 (0.56–0.97)

0.96 (0.70–1.31)

1.03 (0.74–1.43)

0.85

Burkina Faso

MUAC-for-age (2016)

  Normal

417

690 (627–760)

1

1

1

 

   Low MUAC-for-age

34

643 (459–899)

0.95 (0.65–1.38)

0.96 (0.66–1.40)

0.95 (0.65–1.38)

0.78

  Very low MUAC-for-age

7

636 (303–1333)

0.95 (0.43–2.11)

0.92 (0.42–2.05)

0.92 (0.41–2.04)

0.84

Mali

 MUAC-for-age (2016)

  Normal

726

1253 (1165–1348)

1

1

1

 

  Low MUAC-for-age

42

1070 (791–1448)

0.86 (0.62–1.20)

0.85 (0.61–1.18)

0.88 (0.63–1.23)

0.47

  Very low MUAC-for-age

18

1929 (1216–3,062)

1.37 (0.82–2.31)

1.36 (0.81–2.29)

1.46 (0.86–2.47)

0.16

Burkina Faso

 MUAC-for-age (2015)

  Normal

4042

1490 (1445–1537)

1

1

  

  Low MUAC-for-age

421

1424 (1294–1567)

0.96 (0.86–1.07)

0.95 (0.86–1.06)

 

0.39

  Very low MUAC-for-age

68

1437 (1133–1823)

0.97 (0.75–1.25)

1.02 (0.79–1.31)

 

0.88

Mali

 MUAC-for-age (2015)

  Normal

2791

1029 (992–1068)

1

1

  

  Low MUAC-for-age

297

1065 (950–1193)

1.03 (0.91–1.17)

1.02 (0.90–1.16)

 

0.77

  Very low MUAC-for-age

91

1306 (1063–1604)

1.24 (0.99–1.55)

1.20 (0.96–1.51)

 

0.12

  1. aAdjustment was made for age, gender, intervention arm, calendar month, and distance to health facility
  2. bAdditional adjustment was made for AQ dose for the 2016 variables (in addition to the variables listed above). No adjustment was made for SP dose to avoid collinearity
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