Table 1 Characteristics of the study population. *
From: Maternal peripheral blood level of IL-10 as a marker for inflammatory placental malaria
Primigravidae | Multigravidae | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristic | PM- (n = 166) | PM+ (n = 39) | P | PM- (n = 415) | PM+ (n = 40) | P |
Maternal age in years (Mean; SD) | 20.6 (3.3) | 19.7 (1.9) | 0.0964 | 28.9 (5.9) | 25.7 (4.4) | 0.0008 |
Birth weight in kg (Mean; SD) | 3.10 (0.43) | 2.83 (0.42) | 0.001 | 3.25 (0.386) | 3.04 (0.36) | 0.0014 |