Table 1.

Participants' demographic characteristics

Domain	Malaria group	Control group	P
Gender, male N (%)	37 (59.7)	34 (55.7)	0.40
Age (years)	7.22 (1.69)	8.07 (2.01)	0.01
School grade	2.41 (1.54)	2.84 (1.87)	0.17
Weight (kgs)	21.34 (5.22)	24.18 (6.29)	0.008
Height (cm)	119.22 (14.52)	120.87 (12.11)	0.53
Weight for age z score	-0.96 (1.14)	-0.74 (1.25)	0.30
Home environment score	23.46 (6.22)	23.93 (4.95)	0.64
Socio-economic score	10.26 (3.80)	9.38 (3.16)	0.19

cm = centimetres, kgs = kilograms, N = Number. All values are Mean (SD) unless otherwise stated.