Spirulina Supplements Improved the Nutritional Status of Undernourished Children Quickly and Significantly: Experience from Kisantu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Table 1

Characteristics of the study population.

Variables ± SD	Intervention group	Control group
	Weight (Kg)	9.2 (2.8)	11 (2.8)
Haemoglobin (g/dL)	7.8 (2.1)	9.6 (1.4)
Haematocrit (%)	24.0 (6.9)	29.0 (4.7)
Mean corpuscular volume (fL)	81.8 (15.4)	91.4 (10.3)
Total proteins (g/L)	60.2 (17.2)	61.1 (13.4)
Albumin (g/L)	31.9 (9.9)	38.8 (10.6)