Table 2.
Study population stratified by gravidity and malaria infection status
| Group | PM status | n (%) | Gestational age (weeks)a Mean (SD) |
p valueb | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enrollment | Primigravid | PM− | 104 | 21.4 (7.1) | 0.8 |
| PM+ | 67 (39.2%) | 22.1 (4.7) | |||
| Secundigravid | PM− | 92 | 20.3 (6.7) | 0.2 | |
| PM+ | 34 (27.0%) | 22.1 (5.5) | |||
| Multigravid | PM− | 302 | 21.1 (6.3) | 0.7 | |
| PM+ | 58 (16.1%) | 21.6 (6.6) | |||
| Gestational week 30–32 | Primigravid | PM− | 122 | ||
| PM+ | 14 (10.3%) | ||||
| Secundigravid | PM− | 90 | |||
| PM+ | 4 (4.3%) | ||||
| Multigravid | PM− | 270 | |||
| PM+ | 15 (5.3%) | ||||
| Delivery | Primigravid | PM− | 144 | 37.6 (4.2) | 0.03 |
| PM+ | 27 (15.8%) | 36.6 (4.1) | |||
| Secundigravid | PM− | 109 | 37.7 (5.0) | 0.8 | |
| PM+ | 16 (12.8%) | 38.6 (1.3) | |||
| Multigravid | PM− | 326 | 38.6 (4.0) | 0.2 | |
| PM+ | 34 (9.4%) | 39.6 (1.3) | |||
| Pregnancy outcomec | Primigravid | Pregnancy loss | 18 (61.1% BS +) | ||
| PTD | 26 (65.4% BS +) | ||||
| LBW | 33 (66.6% BS +) | ||||
| SGA | 18 (44.4% BS +) | ||||
| Secundigravid | Pregnancy loss | 9 (33.3% BS +) | |||
| PTD | 14 (42.9% BS +) | ||||
| LBW | 19 (52.6% BS +) | ||||
| SGA | 11 (63.6% BS +) | ||||
| Multigravid | Pregnancy loss | 17 (23.5% BS +) | |||
| PTD | 8 (37.5% BS +) | ||||
| LBW | 20 (20.0% BS +) | ||||
| SGA | 22 (28.6% BS +) |
Pregnancy loss includes miscarriages, stillbirths and early neonatal death
PTD Preterm delivery, LBW low birthweight, SGA small for gestational age
aGestational age at delivery includes viable singleton births
bComparison of gestational age between PM− and PM+ within gravidity group by Mann–Whitney test
cPercentage of women that were infected during pregnancy