Maternal nutritional adequacy and gestational weight gain and their associations with birth outcomes among Vietnamese women

Table 5 Comparison of birth outcomes between study groups

Growth parameters	Estimate (95% CI)		p-value
Growth parameters	Intervention (n = 104)	Control (n = 100)	p-value
Birth weight (g)	92 (8176)	Reference	0.0312^a
Birth length (cm)	0.1 (− 0.3, 0.6)	Reference	0.5452 ^a
Birth head circumference (cm)	0.3 (0.0, 0.6)	Reference	0.0886 ^a
Birth weight-for-age z-score	0.25 (0.05, 0.45)	Reference	0.0141^b
Birth length-for-age z-score	0.18 (−0.10, 0.46)	Reference	0.2116^b
Birth head circumference-for-age z-score	0.31 (0.00, 0.62)	Reference	0.0487^b

^ap-value is from ANCOVA analysis controlling for treatment group, gestational age and infant sex
^b p-value from ANCOVA analysis controlling for treatment group, mother’s age, mother’s nutritional status at baseline, socioeconomic status, gestational age and infant’s sex

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