Antierythropoietin Antibody Production Is Not Associated with Malaria and Malaria-Related Anaemia in Humans

Table 2

Association between anti-EPO antibody and malaria among the study participants.

Anti-EPO antibody	Total	Negative	Positive	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-values
Controls	29(33.7)	28(32.6)	1(1.2)	1.000	1(referent)
Cases	57(66.3)	55(63.9)	2(2.3)		0.982(0.085-11.312)	0.988

Fisher exact test was performed to test for association between categorical variables. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the odds of malaria to induce anti-EPO production (presented as odds ratio with 95% confidence interval). < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.