Prevalence, Patterns, and Determinants of Malaria and Malnutrition in Douala, Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Community-Based Study

Table 6

Variation of anthropometric indexes with regard to type of malaria.

Parameters	Clinical groups
	Asymptomatic malaria; ()	Symptomatic malaria; ()	No malaria; ()
WHZ^a				0.98
WAZ^a				0.15
HAZ^b				0.09
BMIAZ^c				0.11
BMI (kg/m^2)^d				0.92

Data are presented as (SD), WHZ: weight-for-height score, WAZ: weight-for-age score, HAZ: height-for-age score, BMI: body mass index, BMIAZ: BMI-for-age score. ^aComputed for participants aged 0-5 years old. ^bComputed for participants aged 0-5 years old and 5-19 years old. ^cComputed for participants aged 5-19 years old. ^dComputed for participants aged 20 years old and above. ^eThe Kruskal-Wallis or analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests were used to compare mean values. Statistical significance was set at .