Table 3

Demographics of the study cohort and those with a medical or pharmacologic contraindication to mefloquine use, U.S. military personnel deployed to Afghanistan, 2007.



Contraindication(s) to mefloquine

Study cohort
Medical
Pharmacologic
Either or Both


Number (%)
Number (%)
Number (%)
Number (%)
Total
11725 (100)
558 (100)
837 (100)
1127 (100)
Gender




     Male
10614 (90.5)
463 (83.0)
670 (80.0)
916 (81.3)
     Female
1111 (9.5)
95 (17.0)
167 (20.0)
211 (18.7)
Race




     White
8552 (72.9)
428 (76.7)
626 (74.8)
846 (75.1)
     Black
1967 (16.8)
84 (15.1)
118 (14.1)
171 (15.2)
     Other
1206 (10.3)
46 (8.2)
93 (11.1)
110 (9.8)
Prior deployments




     0
7119 (60.7)
315 (56.5)
494 (59.0)
660 (58.6)
     1
3442 (29.4)
175 (31.4)
256 (30.6)
347 (30.8)
     2+
1164 (9.9)
68 (12.2)
87 (10.4)
120 (10.6)
Military specialty




     Combat
2818 (24.0)
112 (20.1)
153 (18.3)
214 (19.0)
     Non-combat
8907 (76.0)
446 (79.9)
684 (81.7)
913 (81.0)
Age




     18–19
521 (4.4)
27 (4.8)
18 (2.2)
38 (3.4)
     20–29
7701 (65.7)
356 (63.8)
508 (60.7)
702 (62.3)
     30–39
2774 (23.7)
138 (24.7)
240 (28.7)
301 (26.7)
     40–49
688 (5.9)
37 (6.6)
66 (7.9)
81 (7.2)
     50+
41 (0.3)
0 (0.0)
5 (0.6)
5 (0.4)

Nevin et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:30   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-30