Table 2.
Demographic characteristics of observations from a subset of the KMLC cohort study participants.
| Sub-cohort | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ngerenya | Junju | ||
| Early | Late | ||
| Number of observations (N) | 50 | 126 | 96 |
| Sex: number of females (%) | 25 (50.0) | 40 (31.7) | 45 (46.9) |
| Number per age group (%) | |||
| 0 - 5 years | 32 (64.0) | 76 (60.3) | 50 (52.1) |
| 6 - 10 years | 14 (28.0) | 41 (32.5) | 29 (30.2) |
| 11-15 years | 4 (8.0) | 9 (7.1) | 17 (17.7) |
| Temperature (°C), median (IQR) | NM* | 36.9 (36.6 - 37.1) | 36.5 (36.2 - 36.9) |
| Number of asexual parasite positive observations (%) | 39 (78.0) | 24 (19.0) | 58 (60.4) |
| Number of gametocyte positive observations (%) | 25 (50.0) | 8 (6.3) | 33 (34.4) |
| Number of observations with sickle genotype (%) | |||
| AA | 49 (98.0) | 103 (82.4) | 70 (72.9) |
| AS | 1 (2.0) | 22 (17.6) | 26 (27.1) |
| Number of observations with α-thalassaemia genotype (%) | |||
| Normal | 18 (40.9) | 39 (31.7) | 31 (32.3) |
| Heterozygous | 21 (47.7) | 65 (52.8) | 48 (50.0) |
| Homozygous | 5 (11.4) | 19 (15.4) | 17 (17.7) |
| Missing data | |||
| Sickle genotype | . | 1 | . |
| α-thalassaemia genotype | 6 | 3 | . |
*NM, not measured. A dot (.) indicates that no data were missing for the particular variable, while a number indicates the number of participants for whom corresponding genotype data were not available.