Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of patients at their first presentation with malaria to RSMM hospital, stratified by Plasmodium species (n = 68,361)
| Species | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P. falciparum | P. vivax | Mix | P. malariae | P. ovale | |
| (n = 37,168) | (n = 22,209) | (n = 7234) | (n = 1712) | (n = 38) | |
| Age, n (%) | |||||
| Median year (IQR*) | 20 (6.4–28.8) | 9 (2.3–23.1) | 16 (3.4–25.5) | 21.5 (10.4–30) | 21.2 (17–26.5) |
| ≤ 1 year | 1636 (4.4) | 3013 (13.6) | 582 (8.0) | 62 (3.6) | 2 (5.3) |
| 1–5 years | 4548 (12.2) | 4486 (20.2) | 1245 (17.2) | 141 (8.2) | 1 (2.6) |
| 5–15 years | 5841 (15.7) | 3189 (14.4) | 1151 (15.9) | 268 (15.7) | 4 (10.5) |
| > 15 years | 25,143 (67.6) | 11,521 (51.9) | 4256 (58.8) | 1241 (72.5) | 31 (81.6) |
| Sex, n (%) | |||||
| Female | 17,387 (46.8) | 10,776 (48.5) | 3291 (45.5) | 754 (44.0) | 24 (63.2) |
| Male | 19,781 (53.2) | 11,433 (51.5) | 3943 (54.5) | 958 (56.0) | 14 (36.8) |
| Ethnicity†, n (%) | |||||
| Non-Papuan | 5364 (14.5) | 4193 (18.9) | 689 (9.5) | 110 (6.4) | 4 (10.5) |
| Highland | 26,754 (72.1) | 15,816 (71.3) | 5795 (80.2) | 1338 (78.2) | 33 (86.8) |
| Lowland | 4987 (13.4) | 2166 (9.8) | 744 (10.3) | 264 (15.4) | 1 (2.6) |
*IQR: interquartile range (25th–75th percentiles)
†Data missing for 103 patients