Table 3.

Description of women with and without placental malaria at delivery^a

Parameter	Ngali II		P value	Yaoundé		P value
	PM−	PM+		PM−	PM+
No. of women	13	14		33	15
Age (yr)	25.1 ± 4.9b	22.1 ± 5.3	0.150	25.6 ± 5.4	23.9 ± 4.7	0.295
Length of pregnancy (wk)	39.6 ± 2.4	38.6 ± 2.8	0.315	40.0 ± 1.6	38.7 ± 1.5	0.010
% primigravid	0	50	0.006	30.3	40	0.528
% with placental parasitemia	0	0.61 ± 1.35	0.114	0	4.23 ± 14.83	0.102

^aThis group of women is a subset of those in Table 2 and includes all women for whom delivery data were available.

^bMean ± SD.