Table 1

Observed cases of malaria-related hospital admissions and deaths, and person-years at risk by age and sex in Zomba district, Malawi, 2002–2003
Variable
Hospitalized
 Dead
 Person-years at risk
 HR†
 MMR
 CFR‡ (χ2, P-value)
Age
 < 1 year
 1,189
 101
 40,188
 29.6
 2.5
 8.5 (15.12, 0.002)

1–4 years
 2,136
 133
 124,370
 17.2
 1.1
 6.2

5–9 years
 524
 55
 140,582
 3.7
 0.4
 10.5

10–14 years
 120
 13
 111,086
 1.1
 0.1
 10.8
Sex
 Female
 1,683
 129
 214,626
 7.8
 0.6
 7.7 (0.13, 0.94)

Male
 2,286
 173
 201,600
 11.3
 0.9
 7.6
Total
3,969
 302
 416,226
 9.5
 0.7
 7.6

† HR-Hospitalization rate, MMR-minimum mortality rate per 1,000 person-years

‡ CFR-case fatality rate (%)

Kazembe et al. Malaria Journal 2006 5:93   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-5-93

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