Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical characteristics of study participants.

Variable	Accra	Cape coast	Total	p-value
N	73	127	200
Median age *	26 (23–34)	30 (24–35)	29 (23–35)	0.1348
Gender
Male n (%)	53 (72.6)	64 (50.4)	117 (58.5)
Female n (%)	20 (27.3)	63 (49.6)	83 (41.5)
Parasitaemia
RDT Positive n (%)	0	8 (6.3)	8 (4)
RDT Negative n (%)	73 (100)	119 (92.1)	192 (96)
PCR Positive n (%)	1 (1.4)	19 (14.96)	20 (10)
Sickling
Positive n (%)	6 (8.2)	12 (9.4)	18 (9)
Negative n (%)	67 (91.8)	115 (90.6)	182 (91)
Haemoglobin g/dL (SD)α	13.321(1.3836)	13.55 (2.11)	13.483 (1.9245)	0.9146