Table 1.
Association between host factors and telomere length dynamics in blood of travelers over one‐year follow‐up after a single successfully treated Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection (N = 38, observation = 166)
| Factors | Unit | Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coef. | SE | p‐value | Coef. | SE | p‐value | ||
| Male | Yes | −0.08 | 0.09 | .400 | −0.02 | 0.12 | .852 |
| Age | Years | −0.001 | 0.004 | .715 | −0.004 | 0.004 | .852 |
| Febrile days | Days | 0.003 | 0.02 | .860 | 0.005 | 0.02 | .779 |
| Parasite intensity | Parasites/ml | −0.13 | 0.23 | .579 | −0.001 | 0.03 | .993 |
| Severe malariaa | Yes | −0.26 | 0.10 | .789 | 0.037 | 0.13 | .783 |
| Foreign born | Yes | 0.09 | 0.09 | .296 | 0.115 | 0.13 | .372 |
All analyses adjusted for time (days since start of treatment), using cubic splines with four knots.
Two‐tailed p‐value significance level .05.
a
Severe malaria according to WHO criteria (TMIH 2014).