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. 2020 Aug 17;103(5):1918–1926. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0706

Table 5.

Risk factors for current or past Plasmodium infection in Asian migrants to Angola, 2019

Rapid diagnostic test+ Antigen+ Antibody+
OR P-value OR P-value OR P-value
Age (years)
 < 30 Ref Ref Ref
 30–39 1.12 0.91 1.30 0.72 0.71 0.16
 40–49 1.42 0.70 1.50 0.59 0.74 0.25
 50–59 0.63 0.68 2.12 0.34 0.82 0.49
 60+ 1.12 0.94 0.00 0.99 0.65 0.35
Gender
 Male Ref Ref Ref
 Female 0.00 0.99 1.47 0.53 0.68 0.10
Province
 Luanda Ref Ref Ref
 Lunda Sul 0.49 0.35 1.04 0.94 1.87 < 0.01
 Zaire 1.91 0.33 2.57 0.12 1.04 0.88
 Total years spent in Angola 1.06 0.31 1.01 0.85 1.06 < 0.01
Home country
 China Ref Ref Ref
 Southeast Asia 1.74 0.39 2.46 0.07 0.75 0.12
Occupation
 Construction/machine operation Ref Ref Ref
 Retail/wholesale 0.46 0.36 0.62 0.39 0.66 0.04
 Administration/finance 0.00 0.99 0.84 0.84 0.44 0.02
 Restaurant 3.97 0.14 0.59 0.65 0.95 0.90
 Logistics/transport 2.22 0.35 1.69 0.44 1.01 0.99
 Mining 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.99 0.52 0.14
 Agriculture 0.00 1.00 0.00 1.00 0.37 0.27
 Other/missing 6.76 < 0.01 0.41 0.43 1.25 0.56
 Uses bed net 1.20 0.84 1.30 0.70 2.02 < 0.01
 Uses other form of malaria prevention 1.02 0.99 0.92 0.91 0.67 0.14

OR = odds ratio. Bold values represents significant associations (P-value < 0.01).