An assessment of food supplementation to chronically sick patients receiving home based care in Bangwe, Malawi : a descriptive study

Table 5 Comparison of change in nutritional status (change in BMI per 100 days) between those who did or did not receive oil as part of food supplementation

	oil actually received	Number	Mean	Std. Deviation	Std. Error Mean
rate of BMI change per 100 days from initial assessment to latest survey	OIL	50	.26	.67	.09
	NO OIL	14	.39	1.03	.27

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