Prevalence and risk factors of anemia in the mother–child population from a region of the Colombian Caribbean

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Table 2 Health characteristics of children (6–60 months)

	Female^a	Male^a	All^a
Anemia (< 11 Hemoglobin)	33 (72)	41 (76)	74 (74)
Diarrhea	11 (24)	19 (35)	30 (30)
Fever (> 37 Celsius)	21 (46)	25 (46)	46 (46)
Respiratory Diseases	26 (57)	34 (63)	60 (60)
Stunting (< 2 Standard Deviations)	1 (2)	7 (13)^b	8 (8)
Wasting (< 2 Standard Deviations)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)

^aN (% with that characteristic among the total population of female, male, or all)
^bSignificantly higher based on a chi square test; alpha level of 0.05

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