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Table 6 Lipid profile of patients with recurrent malaria cases in sir Yahaya memorial hospital Birnin Kebbi from 2016 to 2020

From: Renal and hepatic dysfunction parameters correlate positively with gender among patients with recurrent malaria cases in Birnin Kebbi, Northwest Nigeria

Parameters

Control

Patients

Male

Female

Male

Female

Cholesterol (mmol/l)

6.29 ± 0.50a

6.48 ± 0.58a

3.05 ± 1.41b

3.23 ± 2.23b

Triglyceride (mmol/l

1.10 ± 0.77a

1.16 ± 0.86a

2.93 ± 1.15a

3.00 ± 1.14a

HDL (mmol/l)

4.59 ± 1.97a

4.55 ± 2.03a

1.41 ± 0.32a

1.43 ± 0.46a.

LDL (mmol/l)

0.99 ± 0.32a

1.06 ± 0.31a

0.43 ± 0.38a

0.42 ± 0.28a

  1. The values are expressed as mean ± standard deviation of the observations in each group
  2. Values with different superscript letters in the same row are significantly different from each other (P<0.05)