Research Article
Falciparum Malaria as an Emerging Cause of Fever in Adults Living in Gabon, Central Africa
Table 1
Patient characteristics.
| Continuous variables
| All () | Malaria-positive () | Uninfected () | |
| | Age, years* | 25 (19–34) | 24 (19–33) | 26 ( 20–2 ) | 0.37 | | Duration of illness, days* | 2 (2–4) | 2 (2–5) | 2 (2-2) | 0.88 | | Haemoglobin, g/dL* | 10.8 (10.1–11.8) | 11.0 (9.9–11.7) | 10.8 (10.1–11.8) | 0.14 | | Outpatients, n (%) | 120 (39.5) | 57 (44.5) | 63 (35.8) | 0.12 | | Inpatients, n (%) | 184 (60.5) | 71 (55.5) | 113 (64.2) | 0.12 | | Bed net use, n (%) | 53 (17.4) | 23 (17.90) | 30 (17.1) | 0.83 | | Previous self-treatment with antimalarial, n (%)** | 30 (15.3) | 9 (12.7) | 21 (16.8) | 0.27 | | Anaemia, n (%)*** | 105 (51.5) | 39 (54.5) | 66 (47.0) | 0.19 |
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Median (IQR). **Data available for 196 patients. ***Data available for 204 patients.
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