Malnutrition Normal Malnourished Total Diarrhoeal disease N % N % N % Infected 87 22.7 32 8.4 57 15 Not infected 218 56.7 47 12.2 110 28.5 Total 305 79.4 79 20.6 384 100

X²=4.212 P value=0.04, Significant

Table 4: The relation between children age and protein energy malnutrition deficiency, N=384.