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Table 2 Adjusted association of characteristics variables with height for age and BMI for age at birth time

From: Nutritional status of under six years old children in Kalar city, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

  

Height-for-age

BMI-for-age

Variable*

Subgroup

Coefficient

95% CI

P-value

Coefficient

95% CI

P-value

Mother’s age (year)

 < 30

Ref

-

-

-

-

-

`30

0.20

-0.04,0.46

0.108

-

-

-

Family income

High

Ref

-

-

Ref

  

Normal

-0.12

-0.49, 0.24

0.499

0.007

-0.460, 0.474

0.975

Low

0.06

-0.37, 0.50

0.759

-0.191

-0.714, 0.332

0.474

Gestational diabetes

Yes

-

-

-

Ref

-

-

No

-

-

-

-0.59

-1.45, 0.27

0.178

Supplementation

Folic Acid

-

-

-

Ref

-

-

No thing

-

-

-

-0.13

-0.44, 0.17

0.387

Anemia during pregnancy

No

Ref

-

-

-

-

-

Yes

-0.31

-0.80, 0.17

0.210

-

-

-

Mother job

Housewife

Ref

-

-

-

-

-

Employed

0.18

-0.16, 0.54

0.295

-

-

-

Mother education

No Formal

-

-

-

Ref

-

-

Primary

-

-

-

0.009

-0.459, 0.477

0.969

Academic

-

-

-

0.573

0.105, 1.04

0.017

  1. * Data were analyzed using the regression model. First row of each subgroup’s variables consider as reference group (Ref.)