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Table 5 Exclusive and predominant breastfeeding’s unadjusted and adjusted changes on attained growth among Saharawi children

From: Infant feeding practices in the Saharawi refugee camps Algeria, a cross-sectional study among children from birth to six months of age

 

Not predominant or exclusively breastfed

(n =73)

Predominant or exclusively breastfed

(n = 35)

Mean difference

(95% CI)

Adjusted mean difference

(95% CI)

HAZ

−0.71 (1.2)

−0.56 (1.2)

0.12 (−0.34, 0.60)

0.18 (−0.31, 0.66)

WAZ

−0.96 (1.3)

−0.31 (1.2)

0.65 (0.14, 1.15)*

0.62 (0.10,1.13)*

WHZ

−0.52 (1.3)

0.01 (1.07)

0.52 (0.04, 1.01)*

0.41 (−0.08, 0.91)

  1. Data are presented as mean (SD) unless otherwise indicated. Adjusted mean difference was adjusted for child’s age, disease and diarrhea last 2 weeks and mothers BMI, in linear multiple regression models. One outlier removed from HAZ (n = 108), Two outliers removed from WAZ (n = 107). No outliers removed from WAZ (n = 109). * p < 0.05