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