Research Article
Thrombocytopenia as a Diagnostic Marker for Malaria in Patients with Acute Febrile Illness
Table 2
Characteristics of acute febrile patients with and without malaria infection.
| | Variables | Category | Malaria status | value∗ | | Positive n (%) | Negative n (%) |
| | Age in years | ≤14 | 11 (18.3%) | 49 (81.7%) | 0.077 | | 15–24 | 33 (23.1%) | 110 (76.9%) | | 25–34 | 17 (14.3%) | 102 (85.7%) | | 35–44 | 6 (8.3%) | 66 (91.7%) | | ≥45 | 6 (20.7%) | 23 (79.3) | | Sex | Male | 28 (14.7%) | 163 (85.3%) | 0.249 | | Female | 45 (19.4%) | 187 (80.6%) | | Residence | Urban | 22 (11.1%) | 177 (88.9%) | 0.002 | | Rural | 51 (22.8%) | 173 (77.2%) | | Marital status | Single | 41 (21.0%) | 154 (79.0%) | 0.163 | | Married | 31 (14.0%) | 191 (86.0%) | | Widowed | 1 (16.7%) | 5 (83.3%) | | Educational status | Illiterate | 17 (16.2%) | 88 (83.8%) | 0.319 | | Read and write | 4 (10.3%) | 35 (89.7%) | | Primary | 14 (16.1%) | 73 (83.9%) | | Secondary | 23 (24.0%) | 73 (76.0%) | | College and above | 15 (15.6%) | 81 (84.4%) | | Occupational status | Student | 39 (22.7%) | 133 (77.3%) | 0.066 | | Government employee | 9 (19.6%) | 37 (80.4%) | | House wife | 15 (13.8%) | 94 (86.2%) | | Farmer | 6 (15.0%) | 34 (85.0%) | | Private employee | 4 (7.1%) | 52 (92.9%) | | Thrombocytopenia status | Thrombocytopenic | 58 (79.5%) | 48 (13.7%) | <0.001 | | Nonthrombocytopenic | 15 (20.5%) | 302 (86.3%) | | Thrombocytopenia severity | Severe | 9 (12.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | <0.001 | | Moderate | 29 (39.7%) | 14 (4%) | | Mild | 20 (27.4%) | 34 (9.7%) | | Nonthrombocytopenia | 15 (20.5%) | 302 (86.3%) | | Platelet count | | 119.86 ± 75.549 | 263.28 ± 82.17 | <0.001 |
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