The difference was statistically significant for underweight children and stunting (P<0.05) (Table 4).
Moderate-to-severe or "significant" wasting, underweight and stunting were defined as zBMI, WAZ and HAZ below -2 respectively.
In addition, we found also significant ongoing underweight in the course of disease in patients with NOD2 variant alleles.
Only low birth weight was a significant predictor of underweight: children with low birth weight had three-fold higher odds of being underweight than other children (p = 0.002) (Table 4).
Meanwhile, significant pockets of underweight have persisted for decades in South Asia and Africa.
Furthermore, all of these correlations remained significant when the underweight cases were removed from the analyses.
Provincial analyses showed significant declines in underweight among boys and girls in Nyanza.
Of the variables tested, there were no significant associations with underweight children under-5 years (Table 2).
The national trend for all children and separate trends for boys and girls showed significant declines in underweight.
Additionally, sometimes the quadratic terms of rainfall rather than the linear forms were significant predictors for underweight and stunting.
