Table 2.

Perinatal outcome in malaric and non malaric subjects

	Peripheral smear +ve (n = 16)	Placental Smear +ve (n = 21)	Smear –ve (n = 479)
Prematurity	25%	66.4%**	7.84%
Mean birth weight (Kg))	2.21 ± 0.44**	2.07 ± 0.29**	2.36 ± 0.25
APGAR <5 at 5 mins	37.5 %**	14.3 %**	4.2 %
Still birth	6.25 %*	4.76 %*	0.4 %
Perinatal mortality	37.5 %*	38.08 %*	7.0 %

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.001