. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 4.

Published in final edited form as: J Infect Dis. 2004 Jan 21;189(3):540–551. doi: 10.1086/381186

Table 2. Associations between antibodies and clinical parameters among pregnant women.

Clinical parameter	No.	Parasitemia	Birth weight	Hemoglobin	Maternal age
Correlations with adhesion inhibition^a
All cases	39	0.076	−0.127	−0.174	0.0821
PG cases	27	0.033	−0.172	−0.259	−0.013
All MG	25	NA	0.288	0.083	0.166
PG and MG^b	52	NA	−0.132	−0.074	−0.026
Correlations with IgG binding^a
All cases	43	−0.151	0.130	−0.201	−0.106
PG cases	30	−0.095	0.166	−0.234	−0.337^c
All MG	27	NA	0.107	0.090	−0.204
PG and MG^b	57	NA	0.152	−0.091	−0.133
Agglutinating antibodies^d
Positive	36	9.8%	2826 g	10.9 g/dL	20.9 years
Negative	23	11.3%	2576	11.2 g/dL	21.2 years

NOTE. CS2 Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells (PRBCs) were used for all assays. MG, multigravida; NA, not applicable; PG, primigravida.

Data are correlation coefficients.

Does not include uninfected PG who had a very low prevalence of antibodies.

Borderline statistical significance (P =.069). All other correlations and associations were not statistically significant (P> .1).

Data are means.