Comparison of follow up measures of iron status in the three intervention groups
| Follow up measure | Intervention group Median (5th, 95th centile) | Iron follow-on versus iron medicine (p value) | Iron milk versus iron medicine (p value) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron medicine (n1 = 59) | Iron follow-on (n2 = 49) | Iron milk (n3 = 54) | Bivariate* | Multivariate† | Bivariate* | Multivariate† | |
| *Adjusted for enrolment iron measure. | |||||||
| †Adjusted for enrolment iron measure, initial C reactive protein, Pacific ethnicity, having a diagnosis of pneumonia, currently drinking breast milk, maternal restriction of meat intake during pregnancy, and living in a household with more than three children. | |||||||
| ‡Loge transformed as dependent variable for regression analysis. | |||||||
| §n1 = 57, n2 = 48, n3 = 50; ¶n2 = 48, n3 = 53; **n1 = 56, n2 = 45, n3 = 50. | |||||||
| Haemoglobin (g/l) | 118 (99, 134) | 120 (104, 132) | 115 (94, 127) | 0.45 | 0.98 | 0.26 | 0.52 |
| Ferritin‡§ (μg/l) | 22 (4, 92) | 17 (7, 65) | 20 (4, 56) | 0.14 | 0.42 | 0.21 | 0.94 |
| Iron saturationঠ(%) | 14 (3, 34) | 15 (5, 29) | 12 (5, 24) | 0.66 | 0.47 | 0.35 | 0.44 |
| Red cell distribution width‡** (%) | 16 (14, 18) | 16 (14, 20) | 17 (14, 18) | 0.25 | 0.18 | 0.22 | 0.03 |
| Mean cell volume (fl) | 74 (61, 82) | 73 (66, 79) | 73 (60, 80) | 0.17 | 0.23 | 0.90 | 0.80 |