Correction: Association of vitamin A deficiency with early childhood stunting in Uganda: A population-based cross-sectional study
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Correction: Association of vitamin A deficiency
with early childhood stunting in Uganda: A
population-based cross-sectional study
Paddy Ssentongo, Djibril M. Ba, Anna E. Ssentongo, Claudio Fronterre, Andrew Whalen,
Yanxu Yang, Jessica E. Ericson, Vernon M. Chinchilli
In Table 1, the headings Vitamin A Deficient n = 4341 (%) and Not Vitamin A Deficient
n = 4341 (%) are swapped in the third and fourth columns. The third column should be Not
Vitamin A Deficient n = 4341 (%) and the fourth should be Vitamin A Deficient n = 424 (%).
Please see the correct Table 1 here.
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Citation: Ssentongo P, Ba DM, Ssentongo AE,
Fronterre C, Whalen A, Yang Y, et al. (2021)
Correction: Association of vitamin A deficiency with
early childhood stunting in Uganda: A populationbased cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE 16(4):
e0250138. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.
pone.0250138
Published: April 8, 2021
Copyright: © 2021 Ssentongo et al. This is an open
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Table 1. Background characteristics of the survey participants.
Characteristics
Overall
N = 4765 (%)
Not Vitamin A
Deficient n = 4341 (%)
Vitamin A Deficient n = 424 (%)
p-value
32.5±15.4
32.5±15.5
32.1±14.4
0.55
512 (10.8)
477 (11.0)
35 (8.3)
Child-level variables
Child age, mo�
Categories of child age in mo
6–11
0.22
12–23
1042 (21.9)
946 (21.8)
96 (22.6)
24–59
3211 (67.5)
2918 (67.3)
293 (69.1)
Male sex of child
2403 (50.4)
2173 (50.1)
230 (54.2)
Birth order and birth interval
0.10
0.03
First child
450 (31.9)
422 (32.6)
28 (23.9)
2nd or 3rd child, > 2 years interval
590 (41.8)
529 (40.9)
61 (52.1)
2nd or 3rd child, � 2 years interval
99 (7.0)
92 (7.1)
7 (6.0)
4th or more child, > 2 years interval
190 (13.5)
180 (13.9)
10 (8.6)
4th or more child, � 2 years interval
83 (5.9)
72 (5.6)
11 (9.4)
Vitamin A supplementation in past 6 mo
1246 (59.4)
1142 (59.6)
104 (57.1)
0.65
Deworming medication in past 6 mo
2611 (61.2)
2382 (61.5)
229 (58.4)
0.17
380 (18)
343 (17.9)
35 (19)
0.73
2207 (46.4)
2049 (47.3)
158 (37.3)
Had diarrhea last two weeks
Anemia level
None
<0.01
Mild
1142 (24.0)
1043 (24.1)
99 (23.4)
Moderate
1298 (27.3)
1160 (26.8)
138 (32.6)
111 (2.3)
82 (1.9)
29 (6.8)
Lowest
1222 (25.6)
1114 (25.7)
108 (25.5)
Second
1027 (21.6)
923 (21.3)
104 (24.5)
Middle
960 (20.2)
871 (20.1)
89 (21.0)
Fourth
879 (18.5)
798 (18.4)
81 (19.1)
Highest
677 (14.2)
635 (14.6)
42 (9.9)
Mother Educated
3494 (86.4)
3200 (86.5)
294 (85.22)
0.43
Father Educated
3121 (94.6)
2854 (94.7)
267 (93.4)
0.33
Severe
Household-level variables
Wealth index quintiles
0.08
Mother working
3357 (75.2)
3084 (75.6)
273 (70.9)
0.04
Father working
3078 (93.3)
2816 (93.5)
262 (91.6)
0.23
Iodized salt in the household
4524 (94.9)
4122 (95.0)
402 (94.8)
0.27
Owns land for agriculture
3615 (75.9)
3298 (76.0)
317 (74.8)
0.58
Owns livestock, herds or farm animal
3452 (72.4)
3152 (72.61)
300 (70.75)
0.41
Urban
796 (16.7)
738 (17.0)
58 (13.7)
Rural
3969 (83.3)
3603 (83.0)
366 (86.32)
Cluster-level variables
Place of residence
0.08
Administrative geographical region
<0.01
Kampala
165 (3.5)
154(3.5)
11 (2.6)
Central 1
382 (8.0)
348(8.0)
34 (8.0)
Central 2
390 (8.2)
353(8.1)
37 (8.7)
Busoga
469 (9.8)
399(9.2)
70 (16.5)
Bukedi
351 (7.4)
280(6.5)
71 (16.8)
Bugishu
256 (5.4)
232 (5.3)
24 (5.7)
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Table 1. (Continued)
Overall
N = 4765 (%)
Characteristics
Vitamin A Deficient n = 424 (%)
Teso
342(7.2)
312 (7.2)
30 (7.1)
Karamoja
232(4.9)
223 (5.1)
9 (2.1)
Lango
333(7.0)
316 (7.3)
17 (4.0)
Acholi
290(6.1)
266 (6.1)
24 (5.7)
West Nile
299(6.3)
271 (6.2)
28 (6.6)
Bunyoro
324(6.8)
300 (6.9)
24 (5.7)
p-value
Tooro
414(8.7)
397 (9.2)
17 (4.0)
Ankole
307(6.4)
285 (6.6)
22 (5.1)
Kigezi
211(4.4)
205 (4.7)
6 (1.4)
315±15
300±15
302 ± 5
0.16
50 (26 to 91)
50 (25 to 92)
53 (30 to 88)
0.07
Growing season length, days†
Under 5 population�
�
Not Vitamin A
Deficient n = 4341 (%)
n ± standard deviation; †median (25th, 75th percentiles).
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Ssentongo P, Ba DM, Ssentongo AE, Fronterre C, Whalen A, et al. (2020) Association of vitamin A deficiency with early childhood stunting in Uganda: A population-based cross-sectional study. PLOS ONE
15(5): e0233615. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233615 PMID: 32470055
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