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Table 5 Predictors of placental malaria stratified by presence of symptoms

From: The impact of gravidity, symptomatology and timing of infection on placental malaria

Variable

Any symptomatic Malaria (N = 53)

Only asymptomatic parasitemia (N = 175)

aOR

95% CI

p value

aOR

95% CI

p value

Primigravid

2.63

0.54–12.76

0.23

12.07

5.24–27.81

< 0.001

GA at enrollment, weeks

1.36

0.89–2.08

0.15

1.26

1.00–1.58

0.05

GA of first documented infection, weeks

1.13

0.99–1.23

0.07

1.01

0.90–1.13

0.83

Total number of times parasitemia detected in pregnancy

2.43

1.37–4.30

< 0.01

2.13

1.53–2.97

< 0.001

  1. GA gestational age
  2. Statistically significant p values (< 0.05) are indicated in italics
  3. Multivariate binary logistic regression using placental malaria as the main outcome were performed and were adjusted for GA at study enrollment, GA of first documented infection, and total number of malaria infections (symptomatic and/or asymptomatic) in pregnancy. Variables were kept continuous where possible
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Malaria Journal

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