Infant sex modifies associations between placental malaria and risk of malaria in infancy.
Abel KakuruMichelle E RohRichard KajubiTeddy OchiengJohn AtegekaHarriet OchokoruMiriam NakalembeTamara D ClarkTheodore RuelSarah G StaedkeDaniel ChandramohanDiane V HavlirMoses R KamyaGrant DorseyPrasanna JagannathanPublished in: Malaria journal (2020)
PM may have more severe consequences for male infants, and interventions which reduce PM could mitigate these sex-specific adverse outcomes. More research is needed to better understand this sex-bias between PM and infant malaria risk. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02793622. Registered 8 June 2016, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02793622.