Research Article
Nutritional Status and Humoral Immune Response to Plasmodium falciparum in Children Aged 6–59 Months
Table 1
Mean comparison of Specific immune response (anti-Pf IgG (T) according to nutritional parameters, infectious status, and serum iron of children.
| Groups of children | n | Mean (IgG T) | Standard deviation | value |
| WHZ > −2 | 22 | 0.97 | 0.45 | 0.051 | WHZ < −2 | 20 | 0.74 | 0.30 | HAZ > −2 | 35 | 0.85 | 0.41 | 0.704 | HAZ < −2 | 7 | 0.91 | 0.38 | WAZ > −2 | 31 | 0.89 | 0.41 | 0.35 | WAZ < −2 | 13 | 0.77 | 0.34 | BAZ > −2 | 23 | 0.96 | 0.44 | 0.078 | BAZ < −2 | 19 | 0.74 | 0.31 | MUACZ > −2 | 35 | 0.87 | 0.40 | 0.678 | MUACZ < −2 | 9 | 0.81 | 0.39 | Pf positive | 21 | 0.90 | 0.40 | 0.39 | Pf negative | 21 | 0.79 | 0.39 | Iron >0.5 | 26 | 0.83 | 0.39 | 0.85 | Iron <0.5 | 5 | 0.79 | 0.54 |
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