Chronic growth faltering amongst a birth cohort of Indian children begins prior to weaning and is highly prevalent at three years of age

Table 5 Multivariate odds of stunting at 36 months of age and (95% Confidence Intervals, CI) for the complete case analysis and the analysis with missing values imputed

	COMPLETE CASE ANALYSIS¹(N = 277)		IMPUTED ANALYSIS ² (N = 373)
Risk factor	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	p-value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	p-value
Low birth weight
No	1	0.012	1	0.010
Yes	3.81 (1.20-12.1)		3.63 (1.36-9.70)
Beedi work in household
No	1	0.011	1	0.031
Yes	2.09 (1.18-3.70)		1.74 (1.05-2.86)
Maternal height
>=150 cm	1	0.042	1	0.019
< 150 cm	1.88 (1.01-3.47)		2.02 (1.12-3.62)
Growth faltering at 6 months, child either stunted, wasted or underweight
No	1	0.029	1	0.032
Yes	1.85 (1.06-3.22)		1.75 (1.05-2.93)
First born
Yes	1	0.069	1	0.016
No	1.77 (0.95-3.28)		2.00 (1.14-3.51)
SES class
Class I (lower)	1.60 (0.93-2.76)		1.36 (0.82-2.26)
Class II (lower middle)	1	0.091	1	0.237
Gender
Male	1	0.451	1	0.244
Female	0.81 (0.48-1.39)		0.75 (0.46-1.22)
Age at introduction of complementary food
>= 4 months	1	0.449	1	0.353
< 4 months	0.81 (0.46-1.40)		0.79 (0.48-1.30)
Maternal education
None	1	0.824	1	0.596
Primary and Middle	0.94 (0.45-1.97)		0.77 (0.40-1.47)
Higher and College	0.81 (0.40-1.64)		0.73 (0.39-1.36)
Maternal age
<=23	1	0.640	1	0.097
> 23	0.87 (0.49-1.55)		0.64 (0.38-1.08)
Days spent with major illness during first 3 years of life
<=20 days	1	0.311	1	0.103
21-41 days	0.68 (0.36-1.29)		0.62 (0.34-1.11)
> 41 days	1.14 (0.59-2.2)		1.20 (0.66-2.20)

¹ Only records which contained no missing values were included in the model; 42 missing values of the outcome stunting, 8 missing values of birth weight, 32 missing values of mother's height and 28 missing values of growth faltering at six months occurred in 96 children who were excluded from analysis.
² Missing values imputed and adjusted analysis conducted with a random effects logistic regression, [see additional file 1].

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