Table 3.

Participant demographics from the study of TT/CO and matched controls from The Gambia in 2011. Age (generalised linear model) and gender (Fisher’s exact test) were compared between healthy controls and scarred cases, associated P-values are indicated

	Healthy controls	Scarred cases	P-value
Number	38	52	na
Age in years (95% CI)	19.50 (1.00–39.00)	20.50 (3.55–37.73)	0.224
Female, n (%)	30 (78.95)	45 (86.54)	0.343

Abbreviation: na not applicable, CI confidence intervals, n number