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Table 2 Risk factors for peripheral malaria during pregnancy,parasitaemia and placental malaria (multivariate analysis)

From: Impact of malaria during pregnancy on pregnancy outcomes in a Ugandan prospectivecohort with intensive malaria screening and prompt treatment

 

Peripheral malaria (rate ratio)

Parasitaemia (log)

Placental malaria (Odds ratio)

Maternal agea

0.97 (0.94 - 0.98)

−0.01 (−0.04 to 0.01)

0.90 (0.80 - 1.02)

Education level

   

   Primary level

0.76 (0.56 - 1.04)

−0.10 (−0.40 to 0.20)

1.01 (0.17 - 5.81)

   ≥ secondary level

0.50 (0.35 - 0.72)

−0.22 (−0.57 to 0.12)

2.05 (0.33 - 12.64)

Rural residence

1.97 (1.54 - 2.52)

0.04 (−0.18 to 0.27)

6.00 (1.29 - 28.02)

Primigravidae

1.31 (1.02 - 1.69)

0.08 (−0.17 0.33)

1.00 (0.33 – 3.00)

Use of bednet

0.71 (0.56 - 0.90)

−0.08 (−0.30 to 0.14)

0.91 (0.30 - 2.77)

Gestational age at inclusionb

1.05 (1.03 - 1.07)

0.02 (0.00 to 0.04)

1.14 (1.05 - 1.24)

HIV status

0.92 (0.62 - 1.38)

0.42 (0.04 to 0.79)

2.68 (0.61 - 11.74)

# IPT doses

   

   1

0.25 (0.17 – 0.35)

‐‐

‐‐

   2

0.10 (0.06 – 0.18)

‐‐

0.92 (0.22 – 3.76)

# malaria episodes

   

   1

‐‐‐

‐‐‐

3.30 (0.69 -15.88)

   ≥2

‐‐‐

0.47 (0.19 to 0.74)

15.80 (2.77 - 90.27)

  1. a.By 10 years; b. by week; IPT:intermittent preventive treatment.