From: Adolescent pregnancy and linear growth of infants: a birth cohort study in rural Ethiopia
Variables | Maternal age in years | Â | |
---|---|---|---|
15–19 (n = 387) | 20–24 (n = 1036) | p-value | |
Maternal education | |||
 no formal education | 86 (22.2) | 372 (35.9) | < 0.001* |
 primary | 273 (70.5) | 566 (54.6) | |
 secondary & above | 28 (7.2) | 98 (9.5) | |
Wealth index | |||
 Lowest | 152 (39.3) | 377 (36.4) | 0.60 |
 Middle | 109 (28.2) | 304 (29.3) | |
 Highest | 126 (32.6) | 355 (34.3) | |
iron-folic acid intake, (> 90 days) | 113 (29.2) | 326 (31.5) | 0.41 |
Illness in previous 2 weeks | 223 (57.6) | 647 (62.5) | 0.09 |
infant sex, (male) | 187 (48.3) | 517 (49.9) | 0.60 |
Mean(±SD) length (cm) | |||
 At birth | 49.32 (2.26) | 49.53 (2.21) |  |
 3rd month | 60.52 (2.40) | 60.87 (2.62) | |
 6th month | 65.54 (2.68) | 65.71 (2.71) | |
 9th month | 69.12 (2.62) | 68.92 (2.69) | |
 12th month | 72.22 (2.53) | 71.95 (2.65) |