TABLE 2.
Age-dependent risk of death with falciparum malaria
| Locality | Population | Old vs young cutoff age (yr) | Case-fatality rate (%) for:
|
Odds ratio (95% CI) | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old | Young | |||||
| United States | Travelers | 40 | 7.0 | 1.7 | 4.28 (2.5-7.4) | 58 |
| Italy | Travelers | 40 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 3.15 (0.28-35) | 58 |
| Italy | Travelers | 40 | 3.6 | 1.2 | 2.96 (1.2-7.6) | 265 |
| Israel | Travelers | 40 | 5.8 | 0 | >4 (2.5-∞) | 275 |
| Germany | Travelers | 60 | 16 | 1-4 | >4 | 58 |
| Indonesia | Migrants | 20 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 4.2 (2.7-7.3) | 18 |
| South Africa | Hospital ICU patients | 12 | 15% | 0 | >4 | 265 |
| Senegal | Hospital ICU patients | 15 | 41 | 16 | 2.6 (1.4-5.8) | 265 |
| Sri Lanka | Epidemic | 10 | 7.7 | 0.4 | 19 (4.8-36) | 265 |
| Tanzania | Residents | <1/>15 | 6.24 (3.5-11) | 247 | ||