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Table 4 Association between malaria at delivery and pregnancy and neonatal outcome

From: Prevalence of placental malaria among asymptomatic pregnant women in Wolkite health center, Gurage zone, Southern Ethiopia

Variables

Total N (%)

Placental malaria N (%)

P value

Peripheral blood film N (%)

P value

Positive

Negative

Positive

Negative

Parity

 Primigravidae

40 (17.4)

2 (22.2)

38 (17.2)

0.73

5 (14.3)

35 (18)

0.7

 Primipara

23 (10)

1 (11.1)

22 (10)

4 (11.4)

19 (9.7)

 Secondgravida

75 (32.5)

4 (44.4)

71 (32.1)

14 (40)

61 (31.3)

 Multigravida

92 (40)

2 (22.2)

90 (40.7)

12 (34.3)

80 (41)

Mean birth weight in kg (SD)a

–

2.2 (0.2)

3.4 (0.4)

0.04

3.2 (0.5)

3.4 (0.5)

0.015

Birth weight (kg)

 < 2.5

17 (7.4)

6 (66.7)

11 (5)

<0.001

7 (20)

10 (5.1)

0.002

 ≥ 2.5

213 (92.6)

3 (33.3)

210 (95)

28 (80)

185 (94.9)

Maternal HCT (%)

 ≥ 33

97 (42.2)

1 (11.1)

96 (43.4)

0.05

11 (31.4)

86 (44.1)

0.1

 < 33

133 (57.8)

8 (88.9)

125 (56.6)

24 (68.6)

109 (55.9)

Total

230

9 (3.9)

221 (96.1)

35 (15.2)

195 (84.8)

  1. a Student’s t-test was used for mean birth weight