Comparison of Cognitive Function in Children with Stunting and Children with Undernutrition with Normal Stature

Table 1

Comparison of Bayley-III scores of children with stunting and undernutrition with normal stature.

	Stunting (n = 26)	Undernutrition with normal stature (n = 25)
Sex (n)
Male	16	14
Female	10	11
Age (months)	11 (2–34)	16 (9–34)
Bayley-III score; mean (SD)
Cognitive	6.5 (1.12)	6.8 (4.19)	0.550^b
Language	15.3 (6.44)	15.4 (6.12)	0.976^c
Motor	8.9 (5.26)	10.6 (6.31)	0.298^c
Social-emotional	8.1 (4.21)	7.5 (4.41)	0.624^c
Adaptive behavior	58.2 (17.50)	63.7 (16.64)	0.253^c
Bayley-III percentile; median (range)
Cognitive	12.5 (0.1–75)	16 (0.1–99.9)	0.550^b
Language	20.5 (0.1–95)	18 (0.2–94)	0.843^b
Motor	1 (0.1–75)	4 (0–79)	0.183^b
Social-emotional	25 (0.4–99)	16 (1–99.9)	0.533^b
Adaptive behavior	7 (0.1–75)	12 (0.1–58)	0.657^b

^bMann–Whitney test; ^cunpaired t-test.