Table 3.

Prevalence of clinical and asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia as affected by nutritional status

Parameter	Status	N	Clinical malaria parasitaemia prevalence		Asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia prevalence
			% (n)	χ 2	% (n)	χ 2
				P-value		P-value
Malnourished	Yes	103	16.5 (17)	8.88	23.3 (24)	0.68
	No	348	6.9 (24)	0.003	27.4 (95)	0.41
Stunted	Yes	77	16.9 (13)	6.59	26.0 (20)	0.01
	No	374	7.5 (28)	0.01	26.2 (98)	0.91
Underweight	Yes	37	21.6 (8)	7.28	21.6 (8)	0.59
	No	414	8.2 (34)	0.007	27.5 (114)	0.44
Wasted	Yes	31	6.5 (2)	0.08	22.6 (7)	0.08
	No	420	9.7 (41)	0.78	26.7 (112)	0.77