Table 4.
Presenting symptoms in subjects with and without malaria parasitaemia.
| Symptoms | Parasitaemic Subjects (N = 375) |
Non-parasitaemic Subjects (N = 1,282) |
Total (N = 1,657) |
bp-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency (%) | Frequency (%) | Frequency (%) | ||
| Abdominal pain | 162 (43.2) | 542 (42.3) | 704 (42.5) | 0.796 |
| Body ache | 154 (41.1) | 388 (30.3) | 542 (32.7) | 0.0001 |
| Diarrhoea | 37 (9.8) | 141 (11.0) | 178 (10.7) | 0.571 |
| Fever | 290 (77.3) | 956 (74.6) | 1246 (75.2) | 0.307 |
| Headache | 227 (60.5) | 756 (59.0) | 983 (59.3) | 0.632 |
| Nausea/vomiting | 179 (47.7) | 398 (31.0) | 577 (34.8) | 0.0001 |
| Poor appetite | 133 (35.5) | 519 (40.5) | 652 (39.3) | 0.082 |
| Weakness | 198 (52.8) | 647 (50.5) | 845 (51.0) | 0.445 |
| Othersa | 54 (14.4) | 213 (16.7) | 267 (16.1) | 0.338 |
N Number.
a
Constipation, prostration, fainting, catarrh, herpes labialis and inability to swallow.
b
Comparison between parasitaemic and non-parasitaemic subjects.