Growth and tolerance of healthy, term infants fed lower protein extensively hydrolyzed or amino acid-based formula: double-blind, randomized, controlled trial

Table 2 Infant characteristics at study entry

	Study Group			Overall
	Control	EHF	AAF	P
Total number of participants	173	170	159	0.935
males/females, n	101/72	96/74	91/68
males^a
Weight (g)	3730.9 ± 44.3	3689.8 ± 45.4	3684.7 ± 46.6	0.729
Length (cm)	52.7 ± 0.2	52.5 ± 0.2	52.4 ± 0.2	0.638
Head circumference (cm)	36.4 ± 0.1	36.1 ± 0.1	36.2 ± 0.1	0.304
females^a
Weight (g)	3482.7 ± 45.8	3626.7 ± 45.2	3554.1 ± 47.1	0.084
Length (cm)	51.5 ± 0.2	52.0 ± 0.2	51.5 ± 0.2	0.176
Head circumference (cm)	35.5 ± 0.1†	36.0 ± 0.1	35.6 ± 0.1	0.013†

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