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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of patients included in the analysis

From: Baseline data of parasite clearance in patients with falciparum malaria treated with an artemisinin derivative: an individual patient data meta-analysis

Parameter

Median (range) [n or n/N]

Age (years)

10 (0.1–70) [6970]

Parasitaemia (/µL)

70,336 (1000–2,285,920) [6966]

Temperature (°C)

38.0 (34.1–41.5) [3266]

Haemoglobin (g/dL)

12.4 (2.1–19.9) [1812]

Haematocrit (%)

35.0 (11.3–50) [3251]

Anaemiaa

 None

59 [2359/3966]

 Moderate

36 [1422/3966]

 Severe

5 [185/3966]

Feverb

66 [2164/3266]

Gametocytaemia

32 [1610/5045]

Female

35 [2417/6876]

  1. aDefined according to WHO guidelines [23]. For studies where only haematocrit was measured, the following relationship was used to estimate haemoglobin concentration: Haematocrit = 5.62 + 2.60 × Haemoglobin [24]
  2. bDefined as axillary temperature >37.5 °C