Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of study subjects

	Uninfected	Placental malaria without intervillositis	Placental malaria with intervillositis	P value
Subjects	17	7	14
Age (years)	19	18	20	0.61
	(18–19)	(17–21)	(18–21)
Gestational age (weeks)	40	40	40	0.87
	(38–40)	(38–40)	(38–40)
Maternal weight at enrollment (kg)	56	56	56	0.77
	(49.5–58.5)	(52–60)	(52–56)
Percentage of monocytes	0	2.2	8.6	0.0001
		(1.2-3)	(6.6–10.8)
Parasitemia (%)	0	0.41	1.2	0.0001
		(0.21–0.83)	(0.66–11.2)
Birthweight (kg)	3.0	2.8	2.9	0.54
	(2.7–3.5)	(2.6–3.1)	(2.6–3.0)
Placental weight (g)	500	530	495	0.80
	(430–550)	(460–560)	(420–580)
Fetal-to-placental weight ratio	5.95	5.71	5.89	0.48
	(5.2–6.48)	(4.11–6.09)	(5.26–6.20)

Values are presented as median and interquartile range