Fig. 4

Measurements of nutritional status parameters among women with and without geophagia in each trimester. Data points are means with 95% CIs. Cross-sectional comparisons of nutritional status parameters were analyzed using Welch’s t-test, p-values < 0.05 are shown. Ferritin was corrected for inflammation using a correction factor of 0.67 if CRP > 0.5 mg/L at the time of measurement and log-transformed for statistical analysis. Distributions of the individual datapoints for each group are shaded with sample sizes shown in the bottom corners of each plot