Table 2.

Malaria and Intestinal Helminth infection rates of 746 Ghanaian women, overall and according to whether they had an adverse pregnancy outcome,^* 2006

Characteristics			Adverse pregnancy outcome*				P value
	All		No (N = 413)		Yes (N = 333)
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Malaria:
No	475	63.7	292	70.7	183	55.0	< 0.01
Yes	271	36.3	121	29.3	150	45.0
Intestinal helminths
No	554	74.3	317	76.8	237	71.2	0.07
Yes	192	25.7	96	23.2	96	28.8
Hookworms
No	687	92.1	390	94.4	297	89.2	< 0.01
Yes	59	7.9	23	5.6	36	10.8
Ascaris lumbricoides
No	654	87.7	366	88.6	288	86.5	0.37
Yes	92	12.3	47	11.4	45	13.5
Trichuris trichura
No	704	94.4	392	94.9	312	94.6	0.56
Yes	42	5.6	21	5.1	21	5.4
Strongyloides stercoralis
No	717	96.1	402	97.3	315	94.6	0.05
Yes	29	3.9	11	2.7	18	5.4
Enterobius vermicularis
No	731	98.0	405	98.1	326	97.9	0.87
Yes	15	2.0	8	1.9	7	2.1

^*Adverse pregnancy outcome = low birth weight or preterm delivery or small for gestational age or anemia.

Frequencies may not equal N because of missing values.

Bold: P < 0.05.