THE INCIDENCE OF PLACENTAL MALARIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO BIRTH WEIGHTS AT AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL, ZARIA

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THE INCIDENCE OF PLACENTAL MALARIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO BIRTH WEIGHTS AT AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL, ZARIA

Abstract

323 Women were studied, covering a period of six months between January and June, 2005.  Most of the women studied were in the age range 20 -39years (86.1%) with a minority in the age range of 15-19years (12.1%) and 40-49years (1.9%).  Though most of the women were full time housewives (68.73%), their educational status revealed a fairly good level of education with about 42% having part or complete secondary school education and 20.4% having tertiary education. 24.2% had partial or complete primary education and only 13.3% had only informal education.  About half of the women (50.5%) were either primigravidae or secundigravidae.  Most of the women were booked (94.7%) with only 5.3% unbooked.  The incidence of placental malaria was found to be 29.1%, while that of peripheral malaria parasitaemia was found to be 19.2% in the parturients.  64.7% of unbooked women had placental malaria while only 27.1% of booked women had placental malaria.  Primigravidae and secundigravidae constituted 72.34% of all the patients with placental malaria.  Though the difference in average PCV between women with placental malaria (33.6%) and those without (34.3%) was not significant, the number of women who were anaemic from the former (13.8%) was significantly higher than the number from the latter group.  The average birth weights for babies with placental malaria was 3.07kg and this was significantly lower than the birth weight for those without placental malaria (3.16kg).

THE INCIDENCE OF PLACENTAL MALARIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO BIRTH WEIGHTS AT AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL, ZARIA

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