Table 3.

Prevalence of severity criteria among severe malaria cases with respective case fatality rate and relative risk of dying

	prevalence		case fatality rate		Odd Ratio	p value
	number n = 114	%	number/total	%	95 % IC
comaa	22	(19.3)	12/21	(57.1)	9.33 (2.85 – 31.58)	< 0.001
impaired consciousnessb	15	(13.2)	1/14	(7.1)	0.26 (0.01 – 2.07)	NS
convulsionsc	71	(62.3)	18/71	(25.3)	4.42 (0.88 – 29.83)	0.04
respiratory distress	3	(2.6)	3/3			0.002
severe anaemiad	55	(48.2)	11/50	(22.0)	1.10 (0.40 – 3.05)	NS
hypoglycaemiae	30	(26.3)	11/28	(39.3)	3.72 (1.26 – 11.05)	0.006
high parasitaemiaf	39	(34.2)	7/37	(18.9)	0.82 (0.27 – 2.42)	NS

^a: Blantyre score ≤ 2

^b: Blantyre score = 3–4

^c: ≥ 2 / 24 hours

^d: haemoglobin < 5 g/dL

^e: glycaemia < 2.2 mmol/L

^f: parasitaemia > 4%