Methane production and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in children living in a slum

Table 2 Demographic data, anthropometric indicators, and basic sanitation conditions of children with or without small intestine bacterial overgrowth from the slum group

	With SIBO (n = 26)	Without SIBO (n = 58)	P value
Age (yr)	8.3 ± 1.2	8.2 ± 1.5	0.8171
Z-score
Age-weight	-0.76 ± 1.05	-0.46 ± 1.02	0.2131
Age-height	-0.38 ± 0.93	-0.28 ± 1.07	0.6691
BMI	-0.80 ± 1.06	-0.46 ± 1.05	0.1761
Water contamination (%)
Fecal coliforms	21/26 (80.8)	44/574 (77.2)	0.5942
Total coliforms	13/26 (50.0)	30/574 (52.6)	0.9412
Access to public water network (%)	13 (50.0)	37 (63.8)	0.2362
Access to public sewage (%)	3 (11.5)	5 (8.6)	0.4743
Public collection of household garbage (%)	0 (0.0)	2 (3.4)	0.4743

¹mean ± SD, Student′s t-test;

²χ² test;

³Exact Fisher test;

⁴Water samples analyzed in this group. BMI: Body mass index; SIBO: Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.