Table 1. Characteristics of the cohort and associations with HIV and placental malaria.
| Age | Maternal Hb level (g/dL)1 | Infant Bw (g)2 | ||||||||
| n [%] | Mean (SD) | p-value | n [%] | Mean (SD) | p-value | n [%] | Mean (SD) | p-value | ||
| Entire Cohort | 187 [100] | 22.5 (3.1) | 129 [100] | 10.6 (2.14) | 181 [100] | 2852 (518) | ||||
| HIV | negative | 65 [35] | 22.1(2.3) | 30 [23] | 10.7 (2.1) | 61 [34] | 3091 (452) | |||
| positive | 122 [65] | 22.7 (3.4) | 0.197 | 99 [77] | 10.6 (2.2) | 0.934 | 120 [66] | 2731 (510) | <0.001 | |
| Malaria infection | negative | 89 [48] | 23.1 (3.5) | 58 [45] | 10.9 (2.2) | 87 [44] | 2852 (561) | |||
| positive | 79 [42] | 21.6 (2.3) | 0.002 | 61 [47] | 10.5 (2.0) | 0.252 | 78 [43] | 2865 (438) | 0.875 | |
| Not available | 19 [22] | 10 [8] | 16 [9] | |||||||
| HIV and Malaria: | ||||||||||
| DOUBLE NEGATIVES 3 | 27 [14] | 22.3 (2.0) | 9 [7] | 11.1 (2.4) | 26 [14] | 3112 (501) | ||||
| DOUBLE POSITIVES 4 | 47 [25] | 21.5 (2.1) | 0.119 | 42 [33] | 10.5 (2.0) | 0.404 | 46 [25] | 2714 (390) | <0.001 |
The data represents numbers of patients (percentages of total for each parameter) and means [standard deviations].
1
Maternal haemoglobin levels.
2
Birth weight of babies at delivery.
3
DOUBLE NEGATIVES are women with neither HIV nor malaria.
4
DOUBLE POSITIVES are women with both HIV and malaria infection. Variables are normally distributed, so Student's t-tests were applied.