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Table 5 Effect of intestinal helminth infection on malaria related outcomes among microscopic confirmed malaria cases who attended Dore Bafeno Health Center, southern Ethiopia, December 2010 to February 2011

From: Malaria and related outcomes in patients with intestinal helminths: a cross-sectional study

  

Outcomes

 

Helminth infection

Plasmodium density*

Haemoglobin

Anaemia

 

β *** [95% CI]

β *** [95% CI]

AOR** [95% CI]

A. lumbricoides (Al)

2.34 [−24.68, 20.00]

−0.52 [−1.37, 0.32]

1.53 [0.72, 3.22]

Hookworm (Hw)

−11.75 [−83.76, 60.26]

−0.65 [−2.64 , 1.34]

1.69 [0.33, 8.81]

S. mansoni (Sm)

3.65 [−35.09, 42.41]

0.12 [−1.45, 1.68]

1.11 [0.30, 4.17]

T. trichiura (Tt)

19.11 [−13.31, 51.55]

−0.65 [−2.64 , 1.34]

1.69 [0.33, 8.81]

Al and Tt

15.16 [−21.34, 51.67]

-.63 [−1.77, 0.50]

2.31 [0.80, 6.67]

Al and Sm

22.19 [−55.82, 100.19]

-.08 [−2.68, 2.52]

1.27 [0.17, 9.47]

Al, Tt and Sm

64.65 [−10.53, 139.85]

−2.35 [−6.35, 1.63]

2.83 [0.98, 15.24]

Al, Tt, Sm and Hw

52.05 [5.08, 99.03]

−1.62 [−3.61, 0.37]

8.64 [1.18, 63.47]

Any intestinal helminth

14.51 [−3.06, 32.07]

−0.34 [−0.99, 0.30]

1.54 [0.81, 2.90]

  1. NB 1.helmith free but Plasmodium infected individuals are used as reference for calculating AOR-values and regression coefficients.
  2. 2. Plasmodium density*= Plasmodium density is on square root scale.
  3. 3. AOR** odds ratio from multivariate logistic regression models adjusted for effects of age, gender and nutritional status.
  4. 4. β *** regression coefficient from multiple linear regression models adjusted for effects of age, gender and nutrition.