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).