Anemia among indigenous women in Brazil: findings from the First National Survey of Indigenous People’s Health and Nutrition

Table 1 Anemia prevalence and mean hemoglobin levels of Indigenous women according to village characteristics. First National Survey of Indigenous People’s Health and Nutrition, Brazil, 2008–2009

		Anemia		Hemoglobin (g/dL)
	n^a	OR (95 % CI)	p-value*	β (95 % CI)	p-value*
Indigenous Initiatives Project			0.255		0.547
Yes	1729	Reference (1)		Reference (0)
No	4809	1.16 (0.90; 1.51)		-0.07 (-0.29; 0.15)
Indigenous Community Healthcare Initiatives Project			0.130		0.044
Yes	2090	Reference (1)		Reference (0)
No	4534	1.27 (0.93; 1.72)		-0.28 (-0.55; -0.01)
Food Acquisition Project			0.681		0.653
Yes	1733	Reference (1)		Reference (0)
No	4905	0.95 (0.73; 1.23)		0.05 (-0.18; 0.28)
Population size			0.344		0.224
1^st tertile	633	Reference (1)		Reference (0)
2^nd tertile	1866	0.72 (0.47; 1.12)		0.33 (-0.04; 0.71)
3^rd tertile	3872	0.86 (0.62; 1.20)		0.16 (-0.14; 0.45)

OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval
*Wald Test of heterogeneity
^aMaximum N for each category, which may vary between variables due to missing data

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