Table 3.

Cognitive performance of children studied versus health status.

Variables		Obs (%)	Cognitive function Mean score	SD	Student’s t-test and Anova F-test P value
Active Follow-up
Clinical Malaria
	No	1766 (98.43)	0.008	1.417	0.033**
	Yes	28 (1.56)	−0.562	0.942
P. falciparum Parasitemia
	<500	1491 (83.11)	0.072	1.394	<0.001***
	500–1000	108 (6.02)	−0.035	1.426
	1000–1200	19 (1.05)	−0.080	1.475
	>1200	176 (9.81)	−0.588	1.428
Asymptomatic Malaria
	No	1037 (57.80)	0.064	1.356	0.023**
	Yes	757 (42.19)	−0.088	1.484
Splenomegaly
	No	1702 (94.87)	0.006	1.418	0.428
	Yes	92 (5.12)	−0.113	1.316
Non malarial Anemia
	No	828 (46.15)	0.099	1.320	0.503
	Mild	177 (9.86)	0.016	1.547
	Moderate	4 (0.22)	−0.541	1.159
	Severe	no obs	no obs	no obs
Malarial Anemia
	No	587 (32.72)	0.010	1.497	<0.001***
	Mild	191 (10.64)	−0.439	1.339
	Moderate	7 (0.39)	−0.749	1.171
	Severe	no obs	no obs	no obs
Respiratory infections
	No	1773 (98.82)	0.001	1.415	0.665
	Yes	21 (1.17)	−0.132	1.189
Helminth Infections
	No	1788 (99.66)	−0.002	1.412	0.146
	Yes	6 (0.33)	0.836	1.545
Passive Follow-up
Clinical Malaria between two active follow-ups
	No	1666 (92.86)	0.027	1.424	0.003***
	Yes	128 (7.13)	−0.355	1.200
Respiratory infections between two active follow-ups
	No	1759 (98.04)	−0.004	1.419	0.356
	Yes	35 (1.95)	0.174	1.033
Helminth Infections between two active follow-ups
	No	1785 (99.49)	−0.003	1.413	0.192
	Yes	9 (0.50)	0.612	1.292
Active and Passive follow-up
Repeated Malaria between two active follow-ups
	0	1666 (92.86)	0.027	1.424	0.012**
	1	123 (6.85)	−0.348	1.222
	2	5 (0.27)	−0.534	0.399
Interviews
Childhood Past Convulsion
	No	204 (89.86)	0.011	1.044	0.347
	Yes	23 (10.13)	−0.205	1.046
Childhood Hospitalization
	No	211 (92.95)	−0.016	1.069	0.836
	Yes	14 (6.16)	0.043	0.681
Childhood Malnutrition
	No	212 (93.39)	−0.030	1.045	0.636
	Yes	10 (4.40)	0.129	1.006

^***Notes. - denotes statistical significance at the 1% level.

^**denotes statistical significance at the 5% level.

^*denotes statistical significance at the 10% level.