A longitudinal study on anaemia in children with Plasmodium falciparuminfection in the Mount Cameroon region: prevalence, risk factors and perceptions by caregivers

Table 3 Multilinear regression model showing some host and parasite factors associated with anaemia

Variable	β value	P value	Correlation
			Partial
Age	−0.037	0.430	−0.039
Sex	0.037	0.434	0.039
Temperature	−0.078	0.118	−0.078
WBC	−0.186	0.0001^c	−0.192^c
Parasitaemia density	−0.153	0.002^b	−0.155^b
Gametocytaemia	−0.082	0.083	−0.086
Length of fever (days)	−0.162	0.001^c	−0.164^c
R square	0.128
Adjusted R square	0.113

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