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Table 3 Incidence of treatment emergent adverse events (TEAEs) and adverse events (AEs) patients treated with ASAQ

From: Clinical tolerability of artesunate-amodiaquine versus comparator treatments for uncomplicated falciparum malaria: an individual-patient analysis of eight randomized controlled trials in sub-Saharan Africa

Sign or symptom

Total number of patients

Prevalence at enrolment

TEAE

AE

AE vs TEAE

n

Incidence

n

Incidence

Relative difference

Gastro-intestinal

Anorexia

1279

47%

217

17%

551

43%

154%

Abdominal

740

46%

66

9%

202

27%

206%

 

Vomiting

1277

34%

188

15%

392

31%

108%

 

Diarrhoea

1278

20%

214

17%

315

25%

47%

 

Nausea

726

18%

22

3%

107

15%

386%

Neurological

Headache

736

46%

27

4%

132

18%

388%

 

Dizziness

519

2%

3

1%

15

3%

399%

 

Tinnitus

200

1%

1

1%

1

1%

0%

Dermatological

Pruritus

756

26%

141

19%

192

25%

36%

 

Skin symptom

759

24%

97

13%

118

16%

22%

Other

Cough

759

69%

248

33%

371

49%

50%

 

Weakness

1119

59%

176

16%

470

42%

167%

 

Myalgia

216

32%

17

8%

21

10%

24%

 

Jaundice

759

2%

4

1%

4

1%

0%

  1. * The total number of patients was different since different signs or symptoms were screened across the studies.