Table 3 Association of clinical presentation with variability in the blood group
From: ABO and Rhesus blood group variability and their associations with clinical malaria presentations
ABO blood groups, n (%) | Rhesus types | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variables | O (n = 148) | A (n = 67) | B (n = 78) | AB (n = 35) | p-value | Positive (n = 266) | Negative (n = 62) | p-value |
Temperature | < 0.001 | 0.119 | ||||||
< 37 °C | 72 (48.6%) | 6 (9.0%) | 17 (21.8%) | 21 (60%) | 91 (%) | 25 (7.6%) | ||
37.1 – 37.5 oC | 39 (26.4%) | 13 (19.4%) | 21 (27.0%) | 8 (22.9%) | 72 (22.0%) | 9 (2.7%) | ||
> 37.5 °C | 37 (25%) | 48 (71.6%) | 40 (51.3%) | 6 (17.1%) | 103 (31.4%) | 28 (8.5%) | ||
Clinical presentations | ||||||||
Pallor | 34 (23%) | 25 (37.3%) | 36 (46.2%) | 5 (14.3%) | < 0.001 | 89 (27.1%) | 11 (3.4%) | 0.015 |
Vomiting | 61 (41.2%) | 42 (62.7%) | 34 (43.6%) | 11 (31.4%) | 0.007 | 117 (35.7%) | 31 (9.5%) | 0.391 |
Diarrhoea | 36 (24.3%) | 29 (43.3%) | 33 (42.3%) | 4 (11.4%) | < 0.001 | 80 (24.4%) | 22 (6.7%) | 0.407 |
Chills | 101 (68.2%) | 45 (67.2%) | 57 (73.1%) | 19 (54.3%) | 0.268 | 181 (55.2%) | 41 (12.5%) | 0.771 |
Fever | 116 (78.4%) | 53 (79.1%) | 66 (84.6%) | 22 (62.9%) | 0.079 | 211 (64.3%) | 46 (14.0%) | 0.377 |
Nausea | 38 (25.7%) | 17 (25.4%) | 36 (46.2%) | 5 (14.3%) | 0.001 | 84 (25.6%) | 12 (3.7%) | 0.057 |
Headache | 97 (65.5%) | 39 (58.2%) | 39 (50%) | 20 (57.1%) | 0.152 | 159 (48.5%) | 36 (11.0%) | 0.805 |
Fatigue | 16 (10.8%) | 9 (13.4%) | 10 (12.8%) | 4 (11.4%) | 0.943 | 31 (9.5%) | 8 (2.4%) | 0.784 |
Muscle ache | 53 (35.8%) | 23 (34.3%) | 23 (29.3%) | 14 (40%) | 0.694 | 97 (29.6%) | 16 (4.9%) | 0.112 |