. 2009 Jun 29;8:145. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-145

Table 1.

Baseline characteristic of patients enrolled in the study

	Type of malaria
Characteristic	Cerebral malaria	Non-cerebral malaria
Number	48	173
Gender (% female)	19 (40%)	90 (52%)
Number of seizures	3 (2–5.5) ^a	2 (1–4) ^a
Focal seizures (%)	7 (15%)	25 (14%)
Age (months)	28 (17–42)^b	17 (12–30)^b
Age range(months)	4–117	3–99
Blood glucose level at presentation	113 (75–172)	116 (88–155)

NOTE. All results are medians (IQR) unless otherwise specified. Within 24 hours before enrollment

^ap = 0.02

^bp < 0.001