Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of patients included in the analysis

Parameter	Median (range) [n or n/N]
Age (years)	10 (0.1–70) [6970]
Parasitaemia (/µL)	70,336 (1000–2,285,920) [6966]
Temperature (°C)	38.0 (34.1–41.5) [3266]
Haemoglobin (g/dL)	12.4 (2.1–19.9) [1812]
Haematocrit (%)	35.0 (11.3–50) [3251]
Anaemiaa
None	59 [2359/3966]
Moderate	36 [1422/3966]
Severe	5 [185/3966]
Feverb	66 [2164/3266]
Gametocytaemia	32 [1610/5045]
Female	35 [2417/6876]

^aDefined according to WHO guidelines [23]. For studies where only haematocrit was measured, the following relationship was used to estimate haemoglobin concentration: Haematocrit = 5.62 + 2.60 × Haemoglobin [24]

^bDefined as axillary temperature >37.5 °C