Table 1 Sex, age and markers of severity of malaria at enrollment among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children under 5 years, Kampala, Uganda
From: The effect of HIV on morbidity and mortality in children with severe malarial anaemia
Baseline variables | HIV- uninfected children (n = 769) | HIV-infected children (n = 78) | Total N = 847 | P-value* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sex (female) | 356 | 46% | 37 | 47% | 393 | 46% | 0.85 |
Age under 1 year | 321 | 42% | 30 | 38% | 351 | 41% | 0.58 |
Respiratory distress | 287 | 37% | 30 | 38% | 317 | 37% | 0.84 |
Jaundice | 71 | 9% | 6 | 8% | 77 | 9% | 0.64 |
Splenomegaly | 388 | 52% | 41 | 53% | 429 | 52% | 0.87 |
Hepatomegaly | 160 | 21% | 15 | 19% | 175 | 21% | 0.68 |
Post-transfusion severe anaemia+ | 494 | 78% | 51 | 80% | 545 | 78% | 0.78 |
Pre-transfusion hyper-parasitaemia | 55 | 7% | 6 | 8% | 61 | 7% | 0.82 |
Treatment with Quinine (I.V.) | 584 | 76% | 57 | 74% | 641 | 76% | 0.57 |