Characteristics of the cohort and associations with HIV and placental malaria.

The data represents numbers of patients (percentages of total for each parameter) and means [standard deviations].1Maternal haemoglobin levels.2Birth weight of babies at delivery.3DOUBLE NEGATIVES are women with neither HIV nor malaria.4DOUBLE POSITIVES are women with both HIV and malaria infection. Variables are normally distributed, so Student's t-tests were applied.