Table 3

Exposures associated with malarial death in unconditional logistic regression, Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, India, 2007–8

Characteristics

Crude odds ratio

Adjusted odds Ratio

95% confidence interval

Complications on admission

5.7

4.1

1.6–10

Treated at private facility

17

3.7

1.2–12

Treatment started >48 hours of fever onset

19

14

2.9–64

Treated with chloroquine

6.4

13

3.7–47

Household not equipped with bed nets

5.8

6.3

1.9–24

Household not sprayed with DDT

2.6

9.2

2.8–31

Sarkar et al. Malaria Journal 2009 8:133   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-133