Table 1 Study population
From: Prevalence and risk factors of anemia in internationally adopted children: a cohort study
Demographics | Total |
|---|---|
N = 969 | |
Age at arrival, years | 5.2 (2.8–7.5) |
Female sex | 424 (43.8%) |
Skin color | |
Non black | 590 (60.9%) |
Black | 379 (39.1%) |
Latitude of provenience | |
North of Polar Arctic Circle | 2 (0.2%) |
Between Polar Arctic Circle and Tropic of Cancer | 332 (34.3%) |
Between Tropic of Cancer and Equator | 421 (43.4%) |
Between Equator and Tropic of Capricorn | 158 (16.3%) |
Between Tropic of Capricorn and Polar Antarctic Circle | 56 (5.8%) |
Season of arrival | |
Winter | 269 (27.8%) |
Spring | 240 (24.8%) |
Summer | 153 (15.8%) |
Autumn | 307 (31.7%) |
Temporal distance between arrival and sample, months | 0.2 (0.1–0.3) |
Hosting Solution before adoption | |
Institution | 778 (80.3%) |
House-family | 83 (8.6%) |
Trusted family | 73 (7.5%) |
Missing | 35 (3.6%) |
Height, m | 1.1 (0.9–1.2) |
Height category | |
Physiologic | 692 (71.4%) |
Pathologic | 178 (18.4%) |
Missing | 99 (10.2%) |
Weight, kg | 18.2 (12.5–25.0) |
Weight category | |
Physiologic | 663 (68.4%) |
Pathologic | 213 (22.0%) |
Missing | 93 (9.6%) |
BMI, kg/m2 | 16.0 (15.0–17.0) |