Malaria, Intestinal Helminths and Other Risk Factors for Stillbirth in Ghana

Table 2

Malaria and intestinal helminth infection status of 746 Ghanaian women according to whether or not they had stillbirths, 2006.

	ALL		Stillbirth
Infection Status	𝑁	col %	𝑁	row %
Malaria
yes*	271	36.3	22	8.1
no	475	63.7	15	3.1
𝑃 =				<.01
Helminths
yes*	192	25.7	17	8.9
no	554	74.3	20	3.6
𝑃 =				<.01
Uninfected	407	54.6	10	2.5
Malaria alone	147	19.7	10	6.8
Helminths alone	68	9.1	5	7.4
Malaria and helminth coinfected	124	16.6	12	9.7
𝑃 =				<.01

Col = column; 𝑁 = number; ∗with or without other infection. Bold 𝑃<.05.