Table 3. Characteristics on admission of primary VL patients who did or did not have record of subsequent relapse.
Primary VL patients who subsequently relapsed (N = 166) | Primary VL patients who had no record of subsequent relapse (N = 7,924) | P-value* | ||
Age group | <5 years | 21.1% | 17.7% | 0.5 |
5–19 years | 45.8% | 46.3% | ||
>19 years | 33.1% | 36.0% | ||
Sex | Male | 58.4% | 52.9% | 0.2 |
Treatment centre | Lankien | 77.7% | 60.4% | <0.001 |
Other | 22.3% | 39.6% | ||
Mean BMI (patients >19 years) (kg/m2) | (n = 54) 15.50 | (n = 2,525) 15.57 | 0.8 | |
Mean BMI-for-age Z-score (patients 5–19 years) | (n = 65) −3.48 | (n = 2,882) −3.40 | 0.6 | |
Mean WFH Z-score (patients <5 years) | (n = 30) −2.65 | (n = 1,254) −2.68 | 0.9 | |
Malnourished (Z-score<−3 or BMI<14kg/m2) | 26.8% | 28.6% | 0.6 | |
Missing height or weight data | 10.2% | 15.9% | 0.01 | |
Mean admission hemoglobin (g/dl) | 8.26 | 8.66 | 0.1 | |
Missing hemoglobin data | 67.5% | 68.4% | 0.8 | |
Mean duration of illness (months) | 1.73 | 1.88 | 0.2 | |
Missing duration of illness data | 1.8% | 3.1% | 0.4 | |
Admission spleen size (Hackett Grade) | 0 | 3.0% | 8.1% | 0.002 |
1 | 20.5% | 25.0% | ||
2 | 44.0% | 42.8% | ||
≥3 | 31.3% | 20.8% | ||
Missing | 1.2% | 3.4% | ||
Walking status | Unassisted | 22.9% | 23.1% | 1.0 |
With a stick | 48.2% | 49.2% | ||
Assisted/Stretcher | 15.7% | 14.8% | ||
Missing | 13.3% | 13.0% | ||
Drug used for primary VL | SSG | 27.1% | 43.9% | <0.001 |
SSG/PM | 70.5% | 54.8% | ||
Other/CAPST | 0.0% | 0.5% | ||
Missing | 2.4% | 0.8% | ||
Vomiting during treatment | 28.3% | 28.2% | 1.0 | |
Bleeding during treatment | 2.4% | 3.8% | 0.4 | |
Diarrhoea during treatment | 34.3% | 35.2% | 0.8 |
*Student's t-test for difference between mean values, Chi-squared test for differences in proportions.