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The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 1 Characteristics of participants by age, sex, and prevalence of A. lumbricoides

From: Analysis of oxidative status, inflammatory cytokines, and Ascaris lumbricoides infection in women at a health district in Bamenda, Northwest, Cameroon

Variable

Category

Total examined

Prevalence

Χ2, p-value

Total

-

355 (100)

47 (13.23)

 

Age group (years)

[12–18]

6 (1.70)

1 (16.67)

 
 

[18–30]

241 (67.9)

38 (15.77)

4.60; 0.10

 

[31–40]

108 (30.4)

8 (7.41)

 

Pregnancy status

Non-pregnant

224 (63.1)

25 (11.2)

2.28; 0.049

 

Pregnant

131 (36.9)

22 (16.8)

 
  1. Values in bracket are the percentage (%). p-value in bold corresponds for each variable to the factor for which the p-value is significant
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