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Table 3 Weight-for-age z-scores (WAZ) with number (n) of measurements and means in the intervention and control arm with 95 % confidence intervals (CI)

From: Effects of an exclusive breastfeeding intervention for six months on growth patterns of 4–5 year old children in Uganda: the cluster-randomised PROMISE EBF trial

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Intervention

Control

Adjusted difference

 

n

Mean (95 % CI)

n

Mean (95 % CI)

difference (95 % CI)

3 weeks

320

−0.40 (−0.58 to −0.22)

289

−0.16 (−0.39 to 0.07)

−0.24 (−0.54 to 0.05)

6 weeks

345

−0.36 (−0.54 to −0.19)

314

−0.17 (−0.44 to 0.09)

−0.19 (−0.51 to 0.14)

12 weeks

366

−0.41 (−0.60 to −0.22)

324

−0.13 (−0.34 to 0.09)

−0.28 (−0.58 to 0.01)

24 weeks

364

−0.71 (−0.87 to −0.55)

329

−0.34 (−0.58 to −0.10)

−0.37 (−0.66 to −0.08)

2 years

331

−0.96 (−1.12 to −0.79)

312

−0.75 (−1.05 to −0.44)

−0.21 (−0.55 to 0.14)

5 years

235

−1.28 (−1.47 to −1.08)

219

−1.06 (−1.19 to −0.92)

−0.22 (−0.45 to 0.00)

  1. The differences in means were calculated with linear regression adjusted for cluster in addition to inverse-probability population weights