Table 1.

Characteristics of study participants

Characteristics	Total study cohort (N = 734)
Maternal characteristics
Age (years, mean ± SD)	26.4 ± 6.2
Gravidity [number (%)]
Primigravida	132 (18.0)
Secundigravida	117 (15.9)
Multigravida	485 (66.1)
Insecticide treated net use [number (%)]	574 (78.2)
Infant characteristics
Gender [number of females (%)]	378 (51.5)
Birth weight (g, mean ± SD)	3012.7 ± 422.2
Low birth weight (< 2500) [number (%)]	60 (8.2)
Birth season [number in malaria high-transmission season (%)]	455 (62.0)

SD Standard deviation, g gram