Falciparum Malaria as an Emerging Cause of Fever in Adults Living in Gabon, Central Africa

Table 2

Clinical symptoms presented by hospitalized patients (inpatients) according to the presence of P. falciparum infection.

	All (𝑛=184)		Malaria patients (𝑛=71)		Uninfected patients (𝑛=113)		Univariate analysis OR [95% CI]	𝑃	Multivariate analysis aOR [95% CI]	𝑃
	𝑁	%	𝑁	%	𝑁	%
Fatigue	30	16.3	22	31.0	8	7.1	0.6 (0.2–1.4)	0.2	0.4 (0.2–1.1)	0.09
Arthralgia	31	16.8	11	15.5	20	17.7	0.9 (0.4–2.1)	0.9	0.7 (0.3–1.9)	0.56
Pallor	59	32.1	24	33.8	35	31.0	1.3 (0.7–2.4)	0.3	1.2 (0.9–2.2)	0.08
Vomiting	64	34.8	19	26.8	45	39.8	0.6 (0.3–1.2)	0.2	0.5 (0.2–1.2)	0.12
Diarrhea	38	20.6	10	14.1	28	24.8	0.5 (0.3–1.2 )	0.2	0.8 (0.3–1.9)	0.57
Abdominal pain	17	9.2	3	4.2	14	12.4	0.3 (0.1–1.2)	0.1	0.3 (0.1–1.3)	0.12
Deep breathing	4	2.2	3	4.4	1	0.1	5.4 (0.6–52.7)	0.1	3.4 (0.3–35.7)	0.29
Cough	53	28.8	20	28.2	33	29.2	0.9 (0.3–1.8)	0.6	0.8 (0.3–1.8)	0.61
Pneumonia syndrome	50	27.2	19	26.8	31	27.4	0.9 (0.5–2.0)	0.8	0.8 (0.3–2.1)	0.58
Seizures	5	2.7	3	4.2	2	1.8	2.7 (0.4–16.4)	0.3	2.7 (0.4–19.2)	0.33
Impaired consciousness	3	1.6	3	4.2	0	0.0	NA		NA