Assessing the impact of differences in malaria transmission intensity on clinical and haematological indices in children with malaria

Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants

	Kintampo	Navrongo	Accra	Total	P value
Number of enrolees	275	144	149	568
Female, %	44.00	52.78	43.28	46.11	0.174*
Age, years	5.37 (0.20)	5.40 (0.40)	6.246 (0.280)	5.60 (0.16)	<0.001**
Haemoglobin levels, g/dL	9.83 (0.10)	9.95 (0.16)	10.72 (0.14)	10.10 (0.08)	<0.001**
Parasitaemia, parasites/µL	148.435 (12.714)	46.429 (3.977)	37.999 (3.274)	101.210 (10.056)	<0.001**

Relative malaria transmission intensities as measured by entomological inoculation rates in the areas are in the order Kintampo > Navrongo > Accra
Data for age, haemoglobin, and parasitaemia are presented as means (standard error of the mean, SEM)
* P value obtained from Chi square test, ** P value obtained from ANOVA

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