Malaria illness mediated by anaemia lessens cognitive development in younger Ugandan children

Malaria Journal

Table 5 Malaria and anaemia episodes effects on the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) scores for the HEU cohort

Mullen outcome scores	Malaria episodes effects				Anaemia episodes effects
	Model 1: not controlling for anaemia episodes		Model 3: controlling for anaemia episodes		Model 2: not controlling for malaria episodes		Model 3: controlling for malaria episodes
	Coef (SE)	P value	Coef (SE)	P value	Coef (SE)	P value	Coef (SE)	P value
Composite	−0.41 (0.18)	0.02*	−0.32 (0.19)	0.10	−0.32 (0.17)	0.06	−0.19 (0.19)	0.32
Visual reception	−0.26 (0.16)	0.10	−0.14 (0.18)	0.41	−0.35 (0.17)	0.04*	−0.28 (0.18)	0.13
Fine motor	−0.22 (0.14)	0.13	−0.27 (0.16)	0.09	0.00 (0.14)	0.99	0.12 (0.16)	0.46
Receptive language	−0.40 (0.15)	0.01**	−0.34 (0.17)	0.05*	−0.30 (0.16)	0.07	−0.15 (0.18)	0.41
Expressive language	−0.16 (0.15)	0.28	−0.12 (0.17)	0.47	−0.15 (0.16)	0.33	−0.10 (0.17)	0.57
Gross motor T score	−0.06 (0.05)	0.21	−0.04 (0.05)	0.42	−0.06 (0.05)	0.23	−0.04 (0.05)	0.46

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