Cord Malaria Infection, Complement Activation, Oxidative Stress, Gestational Age, and Birth Weight, Characterized by High Plasmodium falciparum Prevalence in Bamenda, Cameroon

Table 6

Total oxidative stress and total oxidative defence of cord blood serum following the delivery date and birth weight levels.

	Umbilical cord malaria-negative women		Umbilical cord malaria-positive women
	TAD	TOS	TAD	TOS
Age of gestation
Less than 245 days	0.28 ± 0.02^a#	0.14 ± 0.03^a#	0.13 ± 0.01^b#	0.19 ± 0.01^b#
245 days to 280 days	0.29 ± 0.03^a&	0.16 ± 0.06^a&	0.18 ± 0.05^b&	0.21 ± 0.03^b&
280 days and above	0.30 ± 0.04^a&	0.18 ± 0.02^a&	0.18 ± 0.04^b&	0.21 ± 0.03^b&
r ( value)	−0.84 (<0.0001)		0.11 (0.53)
Baby weight at birth
Less than 2.5 kg	0.31 ± 0.03^a#	0.12 ± 0.02^a#	0.15 ± 0.03^b#	0.20 ± 0.01^b#
2.50 kg to 4.0 kg	0.27 ± 0.03^a&	0.16 ± 0.11^a&	0.19 ± 0.05^b&	0.15 ± 0.03^a&
High than 4.0 kg	0.26 ± 0.04^a&	0.18 ± 0.01^a&	0.18 ± 0.05^b&	0.16 ± 0.01^b&
r ( value)	0.58 (0.0005)		−0.15 (0.41)

TAD (total oxidative stress), TOS (total oxidative defence), r (Person’s correlation coefficient with TOS). Symbol letters indicate the difference following delivery outcomes, while letters show the difference related to the umbilical cord malaria.