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Volume 19, Number 10—October 2013
Research

Plasmodium vivax Malaria during Pregnancy, Bolivia

Laurent Brutus, José Santalla, Dominique Schneider, Juan Carlos Avila, and Philippe Deloron
Author affiliations: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France (L. Brutus, D. Schneider, P. Deloron); Université Paris Descartes, Paris (L. Brutus, D. Schneider, P. Deloron); Ministerio de Salud y Deportes, La Paz, Bolivia (J. Santalla); Vector-borne Diseases Program, Guayaramerín, Beni, Bolivia (J.C. Avila)

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Table 1

Baseline characteristics of women and babies at delivery during a hospital-based survey, Guayaramerín and Bermejo Bolivia, 2002–2004*

Characteristic Guayaramerín, n = 1,003 Bermejo, n = 504 p value
Mothers
Age, y 23.2 ± 6.4 24.2 ± 6.7 0.008
No. previous pregnancies 2.1 ± 2.4 1.9 ± 2.1 0.40
Primiparae 31.7 28.4 0.18
No. antenatal visits 4.7 ± 2.0 3.7 ± 2.1 <0.001
No antenatal visit 1.9 7.8 <0.001
Houses with indoor insecticide spraying 55.0 50.3 0.098
Women living in rural settlements 6.8 22.7 <0.001
Delivery during transmission season 60.0 52.6 0.006
Hemoglobin level, g/dL 11.1 ± 2.0 11.4 ± 1.9 <0.001
Moderate-to-severe anemia, hemoglobin level <8 g/dL 6.8 6.3 0.70
Babies
Girls 47.5 49.8 0.41
Birthweight, g 3,310 ± 509 3,383 ± 515 0.003
Low birthweight, <2,500 g 5.0 4.8 0.83
Premature babies, <37 weeks 7.6 4.4 0.018
Placental Plasmodium vivax infection 2.7 3.0 0.73
Placental P. falciparum infection 0.4 NA NA

*Values are mean ± SD or percentage. Significant values (p<0.05) are indicated in boldface. NA, not applicable.

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