Risk factors of stunting among children living in an urban slum of Bangladesh: findings of a prospective cohort study

Table 3 Characteristics of study participants according to stunting status at respective age

	At birth		At 12 month		At 18 month		At 24 month
	n = 265		n = 229		n = 218		n = 211
	Stunted	Non-stunted	Stunted	Non-stunted	Stunted	Non-stunted	Stunted	Non-stunted
	48	217	77	152	102	116	101	110
Sex	(F = 27, M = 21)	(F = 109, M = 108)	(F = 35, M = 42)	(F = 79, M = 73)	(F = 49, M = 53)	(F = 53, M = 63)	(F = 44, M = 57)	(F = 59, M = 51)
Mean LAZ	−2.64 ± 0.56	−0.74 ± 0.74	−2.67 ± 0.59	−1.14 ± 0.58	−2.74 ± 0.59	−1.25 ± 0.53	− 2.80 ± 0.60	− 1.32 ± 0.53
Mean WAZ	− 2.34 ± 0.72	− 1.08 ± 0.80	−1.99 ± 0.77	−0.81 ± 0.91	− 2.14 ± 0.70	−0.92 ± 0.89	−2.22 ± 0.73	−1.05 ± 0.85
ABF			11.31 ± 3.73	12.28 ± 2.82	10.19 ± 3.99	10.33 ± 3.07	7.70 ± 4.32	8.55 ± 3.58
ADD			6.45 ± 6.21	5.43 ± 5.80	5.01 ± 5.691	3.34 ± 4.03	3.84 ± 7.14	2.67 ± 3.80