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Table 1 Demographic description of study participants

From: Correlation of malaria parasitaemia with peripheral blood monocyte to lymphocyte ratio as indicator of susceptibility to severe malaria in Ghanaian children

Variables

Cases (n = 1629)

Control (n = 445)

Male

Female

Male

Female

Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital

316 (19.4%)

259 (15.9%)

115 (25.8%)

83 (18.7%)

Sunyani Regional Hospital

382 (23.4%)

312 (19.2%)

91 (20.5%)

67 (15.0%)

Wa Regional Hospital

198 (12.2%)

162 (9.9%)

51 (11.5%)

38 (8.5%)

Total

896 (55.0%)

733 (45.0%)

257 (57.8%)

188 (42.2%)