Malaria, malnutrition, and birthweight: A meta-analysis using individual participant data
Identifieur interne : 002906 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 002905; suivant : 002907Malaria, malnutrition, and birthweight: A meta-analysis using individual participant data
Auteurs : Jordan E. Cates ; Holger W. Unger ; Valerie Briand ; Nadine Fievet ; Innocent Valea ; Halidou Tinto ; Umberto D Lessandro ; Sarah H. Landis ; Seth Adu-Afarwuah ; Kathryn G. Dewey ; Feiko O. Ter Kuile ; Meghna Desai ; Stephanie Dellicour ; Peter Ouma ; Julie Gutman ; Martina Oneko ; Laurence Slutsker ; Dianne J. Terlouw ; Simon Kariuki ; John Ayisi ; Mwayiwawo Madanitsa ; Victor Mwapasa ; Per Ashorn ; Kenneth Maleta ; Ivo Mueller ; Danielle Stanisic ; Christentze Schmiegelow ; John P. A. Lusingu ; Anna Maria Van Eijk ; Melissa Bauserman ; Linda Adair ; Stephen R. Cole ; Daniel Westreich ; Steven Meshnick ; Stephen RogersonSource :
- PLoS Medicine [ 1549-1277 ] ; 2017.
Abstract
Four studies previously indicated that the effect of malaria infection during pregnancy on the risk of low birthweight (LBW; <2,500 g) may depend upon maternal nutritional status. We investigated this dependence further using a large, diverse study population.
We evaluated the interaction between maternal malaria infection and maternal anthropometric status on the risk of LBW using pooled data from 14,633 pregnancies from 13 studies (6 cohort studies and 7 randomized controlled trials) conducted in Africa and the Western Pacific from 1996–2015. Studies were identified by the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative using a convenience sampling approach and were eligible for pooling given adequate ethical approval and availability of essential variables. Study-specific adjusted effect estimates were calculated using inverse probability of treatment-weighted linear and log-binomial regression models and pooled using a random-effects model. The adjusted risk of delivering a baby with LBW was 8.8% among women with malaria infection at antenatal enrollment compared to 7.7% among uninfected women (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] 1.14 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.91, 1.42];
Pregnant women with malnutrition and malaria infection are at increased risk of LBW compared to women with only 1 risk factor or none, but malaria and malnutrition do not act synergistically.
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002373
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Cates</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff001"><addr-line>Department of Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Unger, Holger W" sort="Unger, Holger W" uniqKey="Unger H" first="Holger W." last="Unger">Holger W. Unger</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff002"><addr-line>Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff003"><addr-line>Department of Medicine at the Doherty Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Briand, Valerie" sort="Briand, Valerie" uniqKey="Briand V" first="Valerie" last="Briand">Valerie Briand</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff004"><addr-line>UMR216-MERIT, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), Paris Descartes University, Paris, France</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Fievet, Nadine" sort="Fievet, Nadine" uniqKey="Fievet N" first="Nadine" last="Fievet">Nadine Fievet</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff004"><addr-line>UMR216-MERIT, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), Paris Descartes University, Paris, France</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Valea, Innocent" sort="Valea, Innocent" uniqKey="Valea I" first="Innocent" last="Valea">Innocent Valea</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff005"><addr-line>Unite de Recherche Clinique de Nanoro, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé-DRO, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff006"><addr-line>Departement de Recherche Clinique, Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Tinto, Halidou" sort="Tinto, Halidou" uniqKey="Tinto H" first="Halidou" last="Tinto">Halidou Tinto</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff005"><addr-line>Unite de Recherche Clinique de Nanoro, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé-DRO, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff006"><addr-line>Departement de Recherche Clinique, Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="D Lessandro, Umberto" sort="D Lessandro, Umberto" uniqKey="D Lessandro U" first="Umberto" last="D Lessandro">Umberto D Lessandro</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff007"><addr-line>Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Landis, Sarah H" sort="Landis, Sarah H" uniqKey="Landis S" first="Sarah H." last="Landis">Sarah H. Landis</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff008"><addr-line>Worldwide Epidemiology, GlaxoSmithKline, Uxbridge, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Adu Afarwuah, Seth" sort="Adu Afarwuah, Seth" uniqKey="Adu Afarwuah S" first="Seth" last="Adu-Afarwuah">Seth Adu-Afarwuah</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff009"><addr-line>Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Dewey, Kathryn G" sort="Dewey, Kathryn G" uniqKey="Dewey K" first="Kathryn G." last="Dewey">Kathryn G. Dewey</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff010"><addr-line>Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Ter Kuile, Feiko O" sort="Ter Kuile, Feiko O" uniqKey="Ter Kuile F" first="Feiko O." last="Ter Kuile">Feiko O. Ter Kuile</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff011"><addr-line>Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Desai, Meghna" sort="Desai, Meghna" uniqKey="Desai M" first="Meghna" last="Desai">Meghna Desai</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff012"><addr-line>Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Dellicour, Stephanie" sort="Dellicour, Stephanie" uniqKey="Dellicour S" first="Stephanie" last="Dellicour">Stephanie Dellicour</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff011"><addr-line>Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Ouma, Peter" sort="Ouma, Peter" uniqKey="Ouma P" first="Peter" last="Ouma">Peter Ouma</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff013"><addr-line>Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/ Centre for Global Health Research, Kisumu, Kenya</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Gutman, Julie" sort="Gutman, Julie" uniqKey="Gutman J" first="Julie" last="Gutman">Julie Gutman</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff012"><addr-line>Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Oneko, Martina" sort="Oneko, Martina" uniqKey="Oneko M" first="Martina" last="Oneko">Martina Oneko</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff013"><addr-line>Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/ Centre for Global Health Research, Kisumu, Kenya</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Slutsker, Laurence" sort="Slutsker, Laurence" uniqKey="Slutsker L" first="Laurence" last="Slutsker">Laurence Slutsker</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff014"><addr-line>Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Center for Malaria Control and Elimination, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Terlouw, Dianne J" sort="Terlouw, Dianne J" uniqKey="Terlouw D" first="Dianne J." last="Terlouw">Dianne J. Terlouw</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff011"><addr-line>Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff015"><addr-line>Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Kariuki, Simon" sort="Kariuki, Simon" uniqKey="Kariuki S" first="Simon" last="Kariuki">Simon Kariuki</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff013"><addr-line>Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/ Centre for Global Health Research, Kisumu, Kenya</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Ayisi, John" sort="Ayisi, John" uniqKey="Ayisi J" first="John" last="Ayisi">John Ayisi</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff013"><addr-line>Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/ Centre for Global Health Research, Kisumu, Kenya</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Madanitsa, Mwayiwawo" sort="Madanitsa, Mwayiwawo" uniqKey="Madanitsa M" first="Mwayiwawo" last="Madanitsa">Mwayiwawo Madanitsa</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff011"><addr-line>Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff016"><addr-line>School of Public Health and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Mwapasa, Victor" sort="Mwapasa, Victor" uniqKey="Mwapasa V" first="Victor" last="Mwapasa">Victor Mwapasa</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff016"><addr-line>School of Public Health and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Ashorn, Per" sort="Ashorn, Per" uniqKey="Ashorn P" first="Per" last="Ashorn">Per Ashorn</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff017"><addr-line>Center for Child Health Research University of Tampere School of Medicine and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Maleta, Kenneth" sort="Maleta, Kenneth" uniqKey="Maleta K" first="Kenneth" last="Maleta">Kenneth Maleta</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff016"><addr-line>School of Public Health and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Mueller, Ivo" sort="Mueller, Ivo" uniqKey="Mueller I" first="Ivo" last="Mueller">Ivo Mueller</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff018"><addr-line>Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Stanisic, Danielle" sort="Stanisic, Danielle" uniqKey="Stanisic D" first="Danielle" last="Stanisic">Danielle Stanisic</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff019"><addr-line>Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Schmiegelow, Christentze" sort="Schmiegelow, Christentze" uniqKey="Schmiegelow C" first="Christentze" last="Schmiegelow">Christentze Schmiegelow</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff020"><addr-line>Centre for Medical Parasitology, Depart. Of Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Lusingu, John P A" sort="Lusingu, John P A" uniqKey="Lusingu J" first="John P. A." last="Lusingu">John P. A. Lusingu</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff020"><addr-line>Centre for Medical Parasitology, Depart. Of Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff021"><addr-line>National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga Centre, Tanga, Tanzania</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Van Eijk, Anna Maria" sort="Van Eijk, Anna Maria" uniqKey="Van Eijk A" first="Anna Maria" last="Van Eijk">Anna Maria Van Eijk</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff011"><addr-line>Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Bauserman, Melissa" sort="Bauserman, Melissa" uniqKey="Bauserman M" first="Melissa" last="Bauserman">Melissa Bauserman</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff022"><addr-line>Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff023"><addr-line>Department of Nutrition, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Adair, Linda" sort="Adair, Linda" uniqKey="Adair L" first="Linda" last="Adair">Linda Adair</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff023"><addr-line>Department of Nutrition, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Cole, Stephen R" sort="Cole, Stephen R" uniqKey="Cole S" first="Stephen R." last="Cole">Stephen R. Cole</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff001"><addr-line>Department of Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Westreich, Daniel" sort="Westreich, Daniel" uniqKey="Westreich D" first="Daniel" last="Westreich">Daniel Westreich</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff001"><addr-line>Department of Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Meshnick, Steven" sort="Meshnick, Steven" uniqKey="Meshnick S" first="Steven" last="Meshnick">Steven Meshnick</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff001"><addr-line>Department of Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Rogerson, Stephen" sort="Rogerson, Stephen" uniqKey="Rogerson S" first="Stephen" last="Rogerson">Stephen Rogerson</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff003"><addr-line>Department of Medicine at the Doherty Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">PLoS Medicine</title><idno type="ISSN">1549-1277</idno><idno type="eISSN">1549-1676</idno><imprint><date when="2017">2017</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><sec id="sec001"><title>Background</title><p>Four studies previously indicated that the effect of malaria infection during pregnancy on the risk of low birthweight (LBW; <2,500 g) may depend upon maternal nutritional status. We investigated this dependence further using a large, diverse study population.</p></sec><sec id="sec002"><title>Methods and findings</title><p>We evaluated the interaction between maternal malaria infection and maternal anthropometric status on the risk of LBW using pooled data from 14,633 pregnancies from 13 studies (6 cohort studies and 7 randomized controlled trials) conducted in Africa and the Western Pacific from 1996–2015. Studies were identified by the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative using a convenience sampling approach and were eligible for pooling given adequate ethical approval and availability of essential variables. Study-specific adjusted effect estimates were calculated using inverse probability of treatment-weighted linear and log-binomial regression models and pooled using a random-effects model. The adjusted risk of delivering a baby with LBW was 8.8% among women with malaria infection at antenatal enrollment compared to 7.7% among uninfected women (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] 1.14 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.91, 1.42]; <italic>N</italic> = 13,613), 10.5% among women with malaria infection at delivery compared to 7.9% among uninfected women (aRR 1.32 [95% CI: 1.08, 1.62]; <italic>N</italic> = 11,826), and 15.3% among women with low mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC <23 cm) at enrollment compared to 9.5% among women with MUAC ≥ 23 cm (aRR 1.60 [95% CI: 1.36, 1.87]; <italic>N</italic> = 9,008). The risk of delivering a baby with LBW was 17.8% among women with both malaria infection and low MUAC at enrollment compared to 8.4% among uninfected women with MUAC ≥ 23 cm (joint aRR 2.13 [95% CI: 1.21, 3.73]; <italic>N</italic> = 8,152). There was no evidence of synergism (i.e., excess risk due to interaction) between malaria infection and MUAC on the multiplicative (<italic>p</italic> = 0.5) or additive scale (<italic>p</italic> = 0.9). Results were similar using body mass index (BMI) as an anthropometric indicator of nutritional status. Meta-regression results indicated that there may be multiplicative interaction between malaria infection at enrollment and low MUAC within studies conducted in Africa; however, this finding was not consistent on the additive scale, when accounting for multiple comparisons, or when using other definitions of malaria and malnutrition. The major limitations of the study included availability of only 2 cross-sectional measurements of malaria and the limited availability of ultrasound-based pregnancy dating to assess impacts on preterm birth and fetal growth in all studies.</p></sec><sec id="sec003"><title>Conclusions</title><p>Pregnant women with malnutrition and malaria infection are at increased risk of LBW compared to women with only 1 risk factor or none, but malaria and malnutrition do not act synergistically.</p></sec></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Umbers, Aj" uniqKey="Umbers A">AJ Umbers</name></author><author><name sortKey="Aitken, Eh" uniqKey="Aitken E">EH Aitken</name></author><author><name sortKey="Rogerson, Sj" uniqKey="Rogerson S">SJ Rogerson</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Desai, M" uniqKey="Desai M">M Desai</name></author><author><name sortKey="Ter Kuile, Fo" 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Weight</subject></subj-group></subj-group></subj-group></subj-group></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v3"><subject>Research and Analysis Methods</subject><subj-group><subject>Mathematical and Statistical Techniques</subject><subj-group><subject>Statistical Methods</subject><subj-group><subject>Meta-Analysis</subject></subj-group></subj-group></subj-group></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v3"><subject>Physical Sciences</subject><subj-group><subject>Mathematics</subject><subj-group><subject>Statistics (Mathematics)</subject><subj-group><subject>Statistical Methods</subject><subj-group><subject>Meta-Analysis</subject></subj-group></subj-group></subj-group></subj-group></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v3"><subject>Medicine and Health Sciences</subject><subj-group><subject>Hematology</subject><subj-group><subject>Anemia</subject></subj-group></subj-group></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Malaria, 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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff008"><label>8</label><addr-line>Worldwide Epidemiology, GlaxoSmithKline, Uxbridge, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff009"><label>9</label><addr-line>Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff010"><label>10</label><addr-line>Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff011"><label>11</label><addr-line>Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff012"><label>12</label><addr-line>Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff013"><label>13</label><addr-line>Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/ Centre for Global Health Research, Kisumu, Kenya</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff014"><label>14</label><addr-line>Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Center for Malaria Control and Elimination, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff015"><label>15</label><addr-line>Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff016"><label>16</label><addr-line>School of Public Health and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff017"><label>17</label><addr-line>Center for Child Health Research University of Tampere School of Medicine and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff018"><label>18</label><addr-line>Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff019"><label>19</label><addr-line>Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff020"><label>20</label><addr-line>Centre for Medical Parasitology, Depart. Of Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff021"><label>21</label><addr-line>National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga Centre, Tanga, Tanzania</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff022"><label>22</label><addr-line>Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff023"><label>23</label><addr-line>Department of Nutrition, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America</addr-line></aff><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="editor"><name><surname>von Seidlein</surname><given-names>Lorenz</given-names></name><role>Academic Editor</role><xref ref-type="aff" rid="edit1"></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="edit1"><addr-line>Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, THAILAND</addr-line></aff><author-notes><fn fn-type="COI-statement" id="coi001"><p>The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SHL is is a full-time employee of GlaxoSmithKline and holds shares in GlaxoSmithKline. SR is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.</p></fn><fn fn-type="other" id="econtrib001"><p>‡These authors are joint senior authors on this work.</p></fn><corresp id="cor001">* E-mail: <email>jordanecates@gmail.com</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>8</day><month>8</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="collection"><month>8</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>14</volume><issue>8</issue><elocation-id>e1002373</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>6</day><month>3</month><year>2017</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>11</day><month>7</month><year>2017</year></date></history><permissions><license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><license-p>This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Creative Commons CC0</ext-link> public domain dedication.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="pmed.1002373.pdf"></self-uri><abstract><sec id="sec001"><title>Background</title><p>Four studies previously indicated that the effect of malaria infection during pregnancy on the risk of low birthweight (LBW; <2,500 g) may depend upon maternal nutritional status. We investigated this dependence further using a large, diverse study population.</p></sec><sec id="sec002"><title>Methods and findings</title><p>We evaluated the interaction between maternal malaria infection and maternal anthropometric status on the risk of LBW using pooled data from 14,633 pregnancies from 13 studies (6 cohort studies and 7 randomized controlled trials) conducted in Africa and the Western Pacific from 1996–2015. Studies were identified by the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative using a convenience sampling approach and were eligible for pooling given adequate ethical approval and availability of essential variables. Study-specific adjusted effect estimates were calculated using inverse probability of treatment-weighted linear and log-binomial regression models and pooled using a random-effects model. The adjusted risk of delivering a baby with LBW was 8.8% among women with malaria infection at antenatal enrollment compared to 7.7% among uninfected women (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] 1.14 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.91, 1.42]; <italic>N</italic> = 13,613), 10.5% among women with malaria infection at delivery compared to 7.9% among uninfected women (aRR 1.32 [95% CI: 1.08, 1.62]; <italic>N</italic> = 11,826), and 15.3% among women with low mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC <23 cm) at enrollment compared to 9.5% among women with MUAC ≥ 23 cm (aRR 1.60 [95% CI: 1.36, 1.87]; <italic>N</italic> = 9,008). The risk of delivering a baby with LBW was 17.8% among women with both malaria infection and low MUAC at enrollment compared to 8.4% among uninfected women with MUAC ≥ 23 cm (joint aRR 2.13 [95% CI: 1.21, 3.73]; <italic>N</italic> = 8,152). There was no evidence of synergism (i.e., excess risk due to interaction) between malaria infection and MUAC on the multiplicative (<italic>p</italic> = 0.5) or additive scale (<italic>p</italic> = 0.9). Results were similar using body mass index (BMI) as an anthropometric indicator of nutritional status. Meta-regression results indicated that there may be multiplicative interaction between malaria infection at enrollment and low MUAC within studies conducted in Africa; however, this finding was not consistent on the additive scale, when accounting for multiple comparisons, or when using other definitions of malaria and malnutrition. The major limitations of the study included availability of only 2 cross-sectional measurements of malaria and the limited availability of ultrasound-based pregnancy dating to assess impacts on preterm birth and fetal growth in all studies.</p></sec><sec id="sec003"><title>Conclusions</title><p>Pregnant women with malnutrition and malaria infection are at increased risk of LBW compared to women with only 1 risk factor or none, but malaria and malnutrition do not act synergistically.</p></sec></abstract><abstract abstract-type="toc"><p>In a meta-analysis using individual participant data, Jordan Cates and colleagues explore potential interactions between malaria and nutrition during pregnancy and their associations with low birthweight.</p></abstract><abstract abstract-type="summary"><title>Author summary</title><sec id="sec004"><title>Why was this study done?</title><list list-type="bullet"><list-item><p>More than 125 million pregnant women are at risk of malaria in pregnancy annually, producing detrimental effects on maternal, newborn, and infant health.</p></list-item><list-item><p>Maternal undernutrition is estimated to be responsible for 800,000 newborn deaths annually.</p></list-item><list-item><p>Prior evidence from 4 small studies indicated that the harmful impact of malaria on fetal growth and birthweight (BW) may depend upon the macronutrient nutritional status of the mother.</p></list-item><list-item><p>If malaria and maternal undernutrition have synergistic negative impacts on pregnancy outcomes, interventions targeted to high-risk women might provide substantial public benefit.</p></list-item><list-item><p>The present study provides a robust assessment of potential malaria–nutrition interactions in pregnancy and overcomes size and methodological limitations of earlier exploratory studies.</p></list-item></list></sec><sec id="sec005"><title>What did the researchers do and find?</title><list list-type="bullet"><list-item><p>We present a large, pooled analysis of individual participant data from 13 studies conducted in sub-Saharan Africa and the Western Pacific investigating the interaction between maternal malaria infection and malnutrition on the risk of low birthweight (LBW) and reduced mean BW.</p></list-item><list-item><p>The findings suggest that women who are both infected with malaria and malnourished are at greater risk of LBW than their uninfected, well-nourished counterparts.</p></list-item><list-item><p>However, the study found no conclusive evidence of interaction between the 2, i.e., the impact of malaria on BW was independent of the macronutrient nutritional status of the mother.</p></list-item><list-item><p>Subgroup analyses did find that studies conducted just in Africa had slight evidence of interaction, but this was not consistent throughout all analyses.</p></list-item></list></sec><sec id="sec006"><title>What do these findings mean?</title><list list-type="bullet"><list-item><p>Although there was no overall evidence of malaria–nutrition interactions, more than 1 in 3 pregnant women suffered from malaria and/or undernutrition, emphasizing the importance of joint approaches to decrease maternal malaria and improve nutrition to minimize adverse pregnancy outcomes.</p></list-item></list></sec></abstract><funding-group><funding-statement>JC was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (Pre-doctoral Training in Infectious Disease Epidemiology grant #5 T32 AI070114). The STOPPAM project, "Strategies To Prevent Pregnancy-Associated Malaria," was supported by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (EU FP7); STOPPAM contract number: 200889. STOPPAM I (Benin) and STOPPAM II (Tanzania). The FSP/MISAME study (Burkina Faso) was funded by Nutrition Third World, The Belgium Ministry of Development, Flemish Interuniversity Council, and French Ministry of Development. The ECHO study (Democratic Republic of the Congo) was funded by the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. The iLiNS-DYAD (Ghana) trial was funded by a grant to the University of California, Davis from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. EMEP was partly supported by the Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Consortium, which is funded through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK and partly by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria through a cooperative agreement with Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Center for Global Health Research (CGHR), Kisumu, Kenya. The IPTp-MON study (Kenya) was partly supported by the MiP Consortium, which is funded through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK and partly supported by the CDC. The ITN project (Kenya) was funded by the US Agency for International Development. The Special Health Support Fund from the Royal Netherlands Embassy (Nairobi, Kenya) provided additional support for the study of the impact of ITN in pregnancy. The Kisumu study (Kenya) was funded by US Agency for International Development (grants AOT0483-PH1-2171 and HRN-A-00-04-00010-02) and the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research. The STOPMIP study (Kenya) was funded by the Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Consortium, which is funded through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. The ISTp study (Malawi) was partly supported by the Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Consortium, which is funded through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK and partly funded by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). The LAIS study was supported by grants from the Academy of Finland (grants 79787 and 207010), the Foundation for Pediatric Research in Finland, and the Medical Research Fund of Tampere University Hospital. Azithromycin and its placebo were provided free of charge by Pfizer Inc (New York, New York), which also provided funding for the polymerase chain reaction testing of the sexually transmitted infections. The IPTp study (Papua New Guinea [PNG]) was funded by the MiP Consortium, through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (46099); the Pregvax Consortium, through a grant from the EU FP7-2007-HEALTH (PREGVAX 201588) and the Spanish Government (EUROSALUD 2008 Programme); and Pfizer Inc., through an investigator-initiated research grant (WS394663). The Sek study (PNG) was supported by AusAID (grant to PNG Institute of Medical Research [IMR]), the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia; Australian Research Council; Wellcome Trust; and Veterans Affairs Research Service. The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute is supported by the NHMRC Infrastructure for Research Institutes Support Scheme and Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure Support. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.</funding-statement></funding-group><counts><fig-count count="4"></fig-count><table-count count="2"></table-count><page-count count="20"></page-count></counts><custom-meta-group><custom-meta id="data-availability"><meta-name>Data Availability</meta-name><meta-value>Data are available from the WWARN data repository (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.wwarn.org/working-together/sharing-data/accessing-data">http://www.wwarn.org/working-together/sharing-data/accessing-data</ext-link>) for researchers who meet the criteria for access to confidential data.</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta><notes><title>Data Availability</title><p>Data are available from the WWARN data repository (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.wwarn.org/working-together/sharing-data/accessing-data">http://www.wwarn.org/working-together/sharing-data/accessing-data</ext-link>) for researchers who meet the criteria for access to confidential data.</p></notes></front><body><sec sec-type="intro" id="sec007"><title>Introduction</title><p>Annually, over 20 million infants are born low birthweight (LBW; <2,500 g), predominantly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref001" ref-type="bibr">1</xref>]. LBW can have negative impacts on neonatal mortality and childhood neurological, metabolic, and physical development [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref002" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>]. The World Health Organization (WHO) has set a Global Nutrition Target of 30% reduction in LBW by 2025 [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref001" ref-type="bibr">1</xref>].</p><p>One preventable cause of LBW in LMICs is maternal malaria infection [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref002" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>,<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref003" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>]. Its prevalence remains high, despite targeted malaria prevention programs [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref002" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>]. Annually, 125 million pregnant women are at risk for malaria [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref004" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>]. The predominant species, <italic>Plasmodium falciparum</italic>, sequesters in the placenta, causing LBW through fetal growth restriction (FGR) and preterm delivery [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref002" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>]. Prior estimates from Africa suggest that malaria infection doubles the risk of LBW [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref002" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>,<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref004" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>]. The prevention of malaria infection during pregnancy remains a public health priority.</p><p>Another modifiable risk factor for impaired fetal growth is maternal malnutrition, specifically undernutrition [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref005" ref-type="bibr">5</xref>]. Up to 20% of African women of reproductive age are undernourished [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref005" ref-type="bibr">5</xref>–<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref007" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>]. Maternal protein-energy-fat (macronutrient) and micronutrient reserves and dietary consumption influence fetal growth. Micronutrient deficiencies are difficult and costly to assess; therefore, anthropometrics are commonly used as sensitive but nonspecific indicators of protein reserves, fat stores, and malnutrition more broadly [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref007" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>].</p><p>Recent evidence indicates that the relationship between malaria infection and LBW may depend upon the mother’s nutritional status [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref008" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>]. Studies in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Benin found inconsistent evidence of modification of the malaria infection–LBW relationship by maternal anthropometric status, but studies from Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported significant modification [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref009" ref-type="bibr">9</xref>–<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref012" ref-type="bibr">12</xref>]. Notably, in the DRC, the risk of FGR associated with malaria infection was 2 to 8 times higher among malnourished women [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref011" ref-type="bibr">11</xref>]. Malaria infection and malnutrition may act along similar physiological pathways by affecting placental development and nutrient transfer [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref002" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>,<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref004" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>,<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref005" ref-type="bibr">5</xref>].</p><p>To date, work on this potential interaction has been limited to 4 studies, with only 1,318 pregnant women from Africa and 1,369 pregnant women from PNG. Not only were these studies somewhat inconsistent in their findings, but their interpretation is hindered by relatively small sample sizes, and their findings may not be generalizable to other malaria-endemic countries. The objective of this study was to investigate the putative interaction between maternal malaria infection and malnutrition in relation to birthweight (BW) using a large, pooled dataset of 14,633 live birth pregnancies from women participating in 13 studies conducted in multiple LMICs. We hypothesized that there would be a synergistic interaction, such that the observed joint effect of being both infected with malaria and malnourished would be greater than expected if considering each exposure independently.</p></sec><sec sec-type="materials|methods" id="sec008"><title>Methods</title><sec id="sec009"><title>Study population</title><p>We used data from 14,633 singleton live birth pregnancies from women participating in 13 studies conducted from 1996 to 2015 in 8 African countries and the Western Pacific (PNG) as part of the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref009" ref-type="bibr">9</xref>,<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref011" ref-type="bibr">11</xref>,<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref013" ref-type="bibr">13</xref>–<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref024" ref-type="bibr">24</xref>]. The M3 initiative has been described in detail previously [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref025" ref-type="bibr">25</xref>]. Briefly, the M3 initiative is a collaboration with the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium (MiPc) and affiliated malaria and nutrition researchers who agreed to pool resources to improve the understanding of malaria–nutrition interactions. A convenience sampling approach was taken to obtain eligible studies identified by researchers within the MiPc, and inclusion of studies for the individual participant data meta-analysis stopped 1 January 2016. Studies were eligible if they were an observational study or randomized controlled trial conducted between 1996 and 2015 enrolling pregnant women during pregnancy with follow-up through delivery and they met the following criteria: ethical approval allowed for secondary analyses and data sharing, malaria was endemic in the area with medium to high transmission, assessment of malariometric indices (light microscopy [LM] and/or rapid diagnostic tests [RDT]) at enrollment/first antenatal care visit (ANC), assessment of anthropometric indicators at enrollment (mid-upper arm circumference [MUAC] and/or body mass index [BMI]), and assessment of infant weight within 24 hours postpartum or within 7 days of birth if timing of weight measurement data was available. Data was shared by each individual study using a standardized data transfer file. Participating studies had been undertaken for a range of objectives, including investigation of the mechanisms leading to LBW as a result of malaria, evaluation of antimalarial interventions during pregnancy such as intermittent preventive therapy during pregnancy (IPTp) or insecticide-treated bed nets (ITN), or the assessment of the potential of nutritional supplementation during pregnancy to improve birth outcomes (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s001">S1 Table</xref>). All studies received approval by their local ethics board and obtained informed consent from all participants. The prospective protocol for the IPD analysis is included in the supplemental text (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s010">S2 Text</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="sec010"><title>Outcomes and exposures</title><p>The main outcome measure was BW, analyzed both continuously and dichotomized at 2,500 grams (LBW) [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref001" ref-type="bibr">1</xref>]. Ten studies used digital scales to weigh newborns, 2 studies used spring or digital scales, and 1 study used a hanging weighing scale (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s002">S2 Table</xref>). Weights measured after 24 hours (13% of weights) were adjusted using a cubic regression model to account for weight changes in the first week of life [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref026" ref-type="bibr">26</xref>]. Among 9 studies with ultrasound-dated gestational age, we considered 2 secondary outcomes: small for gestational age (SGA; a BW less than the 10<sup>th</sup> percentile of the INTERGROWTH-21<sup>st</sup> reference) and preterm birth (PTB; gestational age less than 37 weeks) [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref027" ref-type="bibr">27</xref>].</p><p>Diagnostics for malaria were collected at study enrollment and at delivery. For the interaction analyses, we chose to focus on malaria infection at enrollment instead of at delivery for 2 reasons. First, from a public health perspective, if there was interaction at the time of study enrollment, this might help inform future interventions that could be implemented during antenatal care. Second, it has been hypothesized that malaria infection and malnutrition may act along similar physiological pathways to alter fetal growth by decreasing maternal–fetal oxygen transfer and reducing uteroplacental blood flow; 2 mechanisms that would be altered earlier in pregnancy versus at delivery. At study enrollment, we defined malaria based on LM examination of a Giemsa-stained peripheral blood smear or a RDT for malaria antigen [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref028" ref-type="bibr">28</xref>]. At delivery, we defined malaria based on peripheral or placental LM or placental histology (active or past infection). Given the uncertain impact of submicroscopic infections on LBW and the variation in the availability of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostics across studies, we excluded PCR results [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref029" ref-type="bibr">29</xref>]. In sensitivity analyses, we explored alternative definitions of malaria, including any PCR results and “any malaria,” defined as a positive LM, RDT, or PCR at enrollment, delivery, or during pregnancy (in 5 studies with repeat malaria diagnostics throughout pregnancy).</p><p>The primary measure of maternal malnutrition was low MUAC at enrollment, dichotomized at 23 cm [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref007" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>]. MUAC changes little over pregnancy, making it a useful measure of malnutrition [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref007" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>]. Since some studies did not measure MUAC, we used BMI as a secondary measure of malnutrition. According to WHO, a prepregnancy BMI <18.5 kg/m<sup>2</sup> is predictive of adverse birth outcomes [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref030" ref-type="bibr">30</xref>]. BMI at enrollment was used to estimate prepregnancy BMI by adjusting maternal weight measured in the second/third trimesters using a cubic regression model to account for gestational weight gain [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref030" ref-type="bibr">30</xref>]. Low adjusted-BMI was defined as values under 18.5 kg/m<sup>2</sup>. As the correlation between BMI and MUAC is not perfect, indicators were analyzed separately [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref007" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>]. The reason for dichotomizing MUAC and BMI was 2-fold. First, cutoffs are endorsed by WHO, are clinically easier to use, and are commonly used in the current literature to define undernutrition [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref007" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>]. Second, while continuous exposures can be assessed in interaction models, interpretation is difficult, as the interaction estimates vary according to the levels of the exposures being compared and can vary in directionality as well [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref031" ref-type="bibr">31</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="sec011"><title>Risk of bias assessment</title><p>We developed a checklist of study characteristics for each of the included individual studies to assess the risk of bias for the main evaluation of the interaction between malaria infection and maternal malnutrition on BW. Criteria were specific to the research question and were informed by the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale, Downs and Black instrument, and the Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology checklist [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref032" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>–<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref034" ref-type="bibr">34</xref>]. For each included study, we evaluated the individual study publications or contacted individual study collaborators to identify the following items to categorize studies as being either at lower or higher risk of bias: participant retention rate (<75% versus ≥75%), measurement of important confounders (maternal age, gravidity, rural versus urban residence, HIV infection, and anemia at enrollment), clearly described measurement of malaria parasitemia, measurement of MUAC and/or BMI, >80% of BWs measured using electronic scale with known precision ≤20 g, and >80% BWs measured within 24 hours. Studies were defined as at lower risk of bias if every item was determined to be at a lower risk of bias.</p></sec><sec id="sec012"><title>Statistical analysis</title><p>We analyzed maternal malaria infection and malnutrition as coprimary exposures and assessed malnutrition as a modifier of the malaria–LBW relationship. While effect measure modification (EMM) assesses how the effect of 1 exposure varies across strata of another variable, interaction analyses assess the joint effects of 2 exposures [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref035" ref-type="bibr">35</xref>]. We performed both interaction and EMM analyses; however, in the context of this work, interaction is preferable to EMM because interventions for both malaria infection and malnutrition might prevent LBW.</p><p>There are 2 commonly employed approaches for handling individual pooled data, a 1-stage and a 2-stage approach, although there is no consensus as to which approach is preferable [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref036" ref-type="bibr">36</xref>–<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref038" ref-type="bibr">38</xref>]. We employed a 2-stage approach, as it is generally considered more easily interpretable and allows the investigator to visually present forest plots and quantify statistical heterogeneity [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref036" ref-type="bibr">36</xref>]. We examined the consistency of results with a 1-stage approach, fitting a generalized mixed model with random intercepts and slopes. Study-specific risk ratios (RRs) and mean BW differences were calculated using linear and log-binomial regression models controlling for confounding using inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTW) truncated at the 1st and 99th percentiles. A minimally sufficient set of confounders was identified using a directed acyclic graph based upon background knowledge of covariate relationships [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref039" ref-type="bibr">39</xref>]. We identified confounders for both malaria infection and malnutrition relative to LBW since we were analyzing them as coprimary exposures. Confounders for the relationship between malaria infection at enrollment and LBW included maternal age, gravidity, rural versus urban residence, malnutrition (MUAC when available, otherwise BMI), and HIV infection. Because malaria infection is a cause of anemia, the latter was considered a mediator and not a confounder. We explored modification of the effect of malaria infection at enrollment on LBW by maternal gravidity and doses of intermittent preventive therapy (IPTp) received. When assessing malaria infection at delivery, anemia at enrollment and the number of IPTp doses were considered additional confounders. Confounders for the malnutrition–LBW relationship included maternal age, gravidity, rural versus urban residence, anemia at enrollment, and HIV infection. Partially missing data were imputed using multivariate normal multiple imputation (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s009">S1 Text</xref>) [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref040" ref-type="bibr">40</xref>]. We calculated interaction estimates using a product term in the multiplicative and additive model for LBW and the additive model for mean BW [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref035" ref-type="bibr">35</xref>]. These estimates reflect whether the effect of exposure to both malaria infection and malnutrition exceeds the product (or sum) of the effects of each exposure considered separately, defined as synergy. A product term greater than 1 on the multiplicative scale or greater than 0 on the additive scale is indicative of synergistic interaction between malaria infection and malnutrition.</p><p>Study-specific estimates were pooled using DerSimonian and Laird restricted maximum likelihood method random-effects models [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref041" ref-type="bibr">41</xref>]. When <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup>, the estimated variance of the random-effects distribution, was greater than 0, we calculated 95% population effects intervals (PEI), which incorporate the estimated variance between studies [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref041" ref-type="bibr">41</xref>]. If <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> equaled 0, the random-effects model was interpreted as a fixed-effects model. We decided a priori to evaluate the modification of the results by time period (before versus after 2008) due to changes in antimalarial recommendations, study type (trial/cohort), location (Africa/Western Pacific), and the study-level prevalence of malaria infection at study enrollment and delivery based on the individual study data, using meta-regression. We further decided post hoc to conduct a sensitivity analysis for the interaction analyses restricted to adolescent women.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="results" id="sec013"><title>Results</title><p>Using a convenience sample approach, a total of 18 studies were considered for inclusion by the time of our inclusion cutoff date (1 January 2016), of which 13 were included in the pooled analysis (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pmed.1002373.g001">Fig 1</xref>). We excluded 5 studies: 2 studies did not assess malaria at antenatal enrollment [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref042" ref-type="bibr">42</xref>,<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref043" ref-type="bibr">43</xref>], 1 study had data that were not yet available for inclusion [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref044" ref-type="bibr">44</xref>], 1 recruited women comparatively late in pregnancy [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref010" ref-type="bibr">10</xref>], and 1 had not directly measured the number of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) doses given for IPTp [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref045" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>]. Following the cutoff date, 5 further studies were identified, of which 4 could be eligible with a collective sample size of 3,528 pregnant women (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s003">S3 Table</xref>) [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref046" ref-type="bibr">46</xref>–<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref050" ref-type="bibr">50</xref>].</p><fig id="pmed.1002373.g001" orientation="portrait" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pmed.1002373.g001</object-id><label>Fig 1</label><caption><title>Flow diagram of studies included in the individual participant meta-analysis of the interaction between malaria infection and maternal malnutrition on birthweight.</title><p>M3, Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition Initiative.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="pmed.1002373.g001"></graphic></fig><sec id="sec014"><title>Study population characteristics</title><p>Twenty-five percent of the pooled dataset comprised adolescent women aged 19 or younger. The trimester at enrollment, anemia prevalence, gravidity distribution, area of residence, and HIV prevalence varied across studies (Tables <xref ref-type="table" rid="pmed.1002373.t001">1</xref> and <xref ref-type="table" rid="pmed.1002373.t002">2</xref>). The prevalence of malaria infection at enrollment, malaria infection at delivery, low MUAC, and joint malaria infection at enrollment and low MUAC also varied by study (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pmed.1002373.g002">Fig 2</xref> and <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s015">S5 Fig</xref>). Among 8,152 women with both measurements, only 2% had both low MUAC and malaria infection at enrollment. The prevalence of malaria infection among women with low MUAC was 16%, compared to 12% among well-nourished women (<italic>p</italic> = 0.0005). The prevalence of low BMI varied across studies and was different from, although correlated with, the prevalence of low MUAC (<italic>χ</italic><sup>2</sup><italic>p</italic> < 0.0001; <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s011">S1 Fig</xref>). The joint prevalence of malaria infection at enrollment and low BMI was also 2%. Of all 14,633 women, 35% were infected with malaria at either enrollment or delivery or had low MUAC or BMI. The prevalence of LBW was 9% (range 5% to 15% among studies). Among 9 studies with ultrasound-dated gestational age, the prevalence of SGA was 19% (range 13% to 25%), and the prevalence of PTB was 11% (range 3% to 20%).</p><fig id="pmed.1002373.g002" orientation="portrait" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pmed.1002373.g002</object-id><label>Fig 2</label><caption><title>Prevalence of malaria infection at enrollment, malnutrition (mid-upper arm circumference [MUAC] < 23 cm or body mass index [BMI] < 18.5 kg/m<sup>2</sup>), and joint malaria infection and malnutrition among 14,633 live birth pregnancies from women participating in studies (years 1996–2015) included in the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative.</title></caption><graphic xlink:href="pmed.1002373.g002"></graphic></fig><table-wrap id="pmed.1002373.t001" orientation="portrait" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pmed.1002373.t001</object-id><label>Table 1</label><caption><title>The characteristics of women included in the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative from the following 6 out of 13 M3 studies: Kisumu-Kenya, IPTp-PNG, ISTp-Malawi, STOPMIP-Kenya, LAIS-Malawi, and iLiNS-Ghana.</title></caption><alternatives><graphic id="pmed.1002373.t001g" xlink:href="pmed.1002373.t001"></graphic><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><colgroup span="1"><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><th align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Kisumu-Kenya<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 3,388)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">IPTp-PNG<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 1,943)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">ISTp-Malawi<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 1,602)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">STOPMIP-Kenya<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 1,203)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">LAIS-Malawi<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 1,190)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">iLiNS-Ghana<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 1,068)</th></tr><tr><th align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Study enrollment (years)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1996–2001</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2009–2013</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2011–2013</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2012–2015</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2003–2006</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2009–2012</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Maternal age</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">20 (18–24)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">24 (20–28)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">21 (18–26)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">22 (19–27)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">24 (20–29)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">26 (22–30)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Gravidity</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 1 (Primi-)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,656 (49)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">966 (50)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">542 (34)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">403 (34)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">267 (22)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">349 (33)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 2 (Secundi-)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">748 (22)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">494 (21)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">448 (28)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">237 (20)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">213 (18)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">351 (33)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 3+ (Multi-)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">984 (29)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">573 (29)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">612 (38)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">563 (47)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">710 (60)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">368 (34)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Trimester<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="t001fn002">*</xref></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 1</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">72 (4)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">21 (2)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">103 (10)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 2</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,780 (92)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,585 (99)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">991 (82)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,190 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">881 (82)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 3</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3,388 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">91 (5)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">17 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">191 (16)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">81 (8)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Missing GA</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Anemic<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="t001fn003"><sup>†</sup></xref></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Yes</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2,548 (75)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,348 (69)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">533 (33)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">591 (49)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">459 (39)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">305 (29)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> No</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">808 (24)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">512 (26)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,069 (67)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">612 (51)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">731 (61)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">763 (71)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Missing</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">32 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">83 (4)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">HIV</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Yes</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">810 (24)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">144 (12)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> No</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2,560 (76)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,602 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,203 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">931 (78)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,059 (99)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Missing</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">18 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,943 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">115 (10)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">9 (1)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Area of Residence</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rural</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">722 (21)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,185 (61)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,590 (99)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1027 (85)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,190 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Urban</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2,666 (77)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">758 (39)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">10 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">169 (14)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,068 (100)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Missing</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">7 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">IPTp doses</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0–0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1 (1–3)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4 (3–4)<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="t001fn004"><sup>‡</sup></xref></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2 (1–3)<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="t001fn004"><sup>‡</sup></xref></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4 (2–4)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Bed net ownership</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Yes</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,798 (93)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">327 (20)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">681 (57)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">877 (74)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> No</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">145 (7)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,275 (80)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">522 (43)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">313 (26)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Missing</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3,388 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,068 (100)</td></tr></tbody></table></alternatives><table-wrap-foot><fn id="t001fn001"><p>Categorical variables are expressed as N (%) and continuous variables are expressed as median (IQR). A dash indicates information on particular factor was not assessed in parent study.</p></fn><fn id="t001fn002"><p>* Based on ultrasound if measured, otherwise based on Ballard’s score or symphysis-pubis fundal height (SFH). When using SFH, to adjust for misclassification in the first trimester, a fundal height <7 cm was defined as first trimester, while SFH < 28 cm was defined as second trimester, and SFH ≥ 28 cm was defined as third trimester.</p></fn><fn id="t001fn003"><p><sup>†</sup> Anemic = hemoglobin <11 g/dL of venous blood, if available, or hematocrit <33% in the first and third trimesters and less than 10.5 g/dL and 32%, respectively, for the second trimester.</p></fn><fn id="t001fn004"><p><sup>‡</sup> Excluding women randomized to the intermittent screening and treatment group.</p></fn><fn id="t001fn005"><p>GA, gestational age; iLiNS, International Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements; IPTp, intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy; ISTp, intermittent screening for malaria infection during pregnancy; LAIS, Lungwena Antenatal Intervention Study; M3, Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition; PNG, Papua New Guinea; STOPMIP, strategies to prevent malaria infection during pregnancy.</p></fn></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap><table-wrap id="pmed.1002373.t002" orientation="portrait" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pmed.1002373.t002</object-id><label>Table 2</label><caption><title>The characteristics of women included in the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative from the following 7 out of 13 M3 studies: FSP/MISAME-BF, STOPPAM-Benin, STOPPAM-Tanzania, ITN-Kenya, EMEP/IPTp-MON-Kenya, Sek-PNG, ECHO-DRC.</title></caption><alternatives><graphic id="pmed.1002373.t002g" xlink:href="pmed.1002373.t002"></graphic><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><colgroup span="1"><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col><col align="left" valign="middle" span="1"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><th align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">FSP/ MISAME- BF<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 1020)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">STOPPAM- Benin<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 791)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">STOPPAM-Tanzania<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 789)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">ITN- Kenya<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 711)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">EMEP/IPTp-MON-Kenya<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 471)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Sek-PNG<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 293)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">ECHO- DRC<break></break>(<italic>N</italic> = 164)</th></tr><tr><th align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Study enrollment (years)</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2006–2008</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2008–2010</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2008–2010</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1996–1999</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2011–2013</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2005–2007</th><th align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2005–2006</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Maternal age</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">23 (19.5–28)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">25 (22–30)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">26 (22–31)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">24 (20–30)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">24 (20–30)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">24 (21–28)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">27 (23.5–31)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Gravidity</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 1 (Primi-)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">205 (20)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">147 (19)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">162 (21)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">127 (18)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">94 (20)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">115 (39)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">43 (26)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 2 (Secundi-)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">216 (21)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">173 (22)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">201 (25)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">118 (17)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">77 (16)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">54 (18)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">22 (13)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 3+ (Multi-)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">599 (59)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">471 (59)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">426 (54)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">466 (66)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">300 (64)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">124 (42)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">99 (60)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Trimester<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="t002fn002">*</xref></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 1</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">385 (38)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">174 (22)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">88 (11)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">67 (14)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">6 (4)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 2</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">595 (58)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">616 (78)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">701 (89)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">376 (53)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">247 (52)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">214 (73)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">158 (96)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> 3</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">40 (4)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">292 (41)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">140 (30)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">75 (26)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Missing GA</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">40 (6)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">17 (4)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Anemic<xref ref-type="table-fn" rid="t002fn003"><sup>†</sup></xref></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Yes</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">372 (36)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">354 (45)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">289 (37)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">416 (59)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">169 (36)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">272 (93)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">43 (26)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> No</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">630 (62)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">433 (55)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">497 (63)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">293 (41)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">297 (63)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">21 (7)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">107 (65)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Missing</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">18 (2)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">5 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">14 (9)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">HIV</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Yes</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">13 (2)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">39 (4)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">51 (7)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4 (2)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> No</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">699 (88)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">693 (88)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">234 (33)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">468 (99)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">160 (98)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Missing</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,020 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">79 (10)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">57 (7)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">426 (60)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">293 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Area of Residence</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rural</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,020 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">791 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">430 (55)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">711 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">471 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">282 (96)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Urban</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">354 (45)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">8 (3)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">164 (100)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Missing</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">5 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">IPTp dosage</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2 (1–2)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2 (2–2)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2 (2–2)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0–0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 (2–3)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2 (2–2)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Bed net ownership</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Yes</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">254 (32)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">571 (72)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">348 (49)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">240 (82)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">164 (100)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> No</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">537 (68)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">52 (7)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">363 (51)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">–</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">49 (17)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Missing</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1,020 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">166 (21)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">471 (100)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4 (1)</td><td align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0 (0)</td></tr></tbody></table></alternatives><table-wrap-foot><fn id="t002fn001"><p>Categorical variables are expressed as <italic>N</italic> (%) and continuous variables are expressed as median (IQR). A dash indicates information on particular factor was not assessed in parent study.</p></fn><fn id="t002fn002"><p>* Based on ultrasound if measured, otherwise based on Ballard’s score or symphysis-pubis fundal height (SFH). When using SFH, to adjust for misclassification in the first trimester, a fundal height <7 cm was defined as first trimester, while SFH < 28 cm was defined as second trimester, and SFH ≥ 28 cm was defined as third trimester.</p></fn><fn id="t002fn003"><p><sup>†</sup> Anemic = hemoglobin <11 g/dL of venous blood, if available, or hematocrit <33% in the first and third trimesters and less than 10.5 g/dL and 32%, respectively, for the second trimester.</p></fn><fn id="t002fn004"><p>BF, Burkina Faso; DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo; EMEP, Evaluation of Medications used in Early Pregnancy; GA, gestational age; IPTp, intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy; ITN, insecticide-treated bed nets; M3, Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition; PNG, Papua New Guinea; STOPPAM, Strategies to Prevent Pregnancy-Associated Malaria.</p></fn></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap><p>Five of the thirteen included studies were judged to be at a lower risk of bias for the assessment of interaction between malaria infection and maternal malnutrition on BW (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s004">S4 Table</xref>). Among the 8 other studies, 3 had a <75% retention rate for the primary outcome, 5 did not measure at least 80% of BWs with an electronic scale with known precision ≤20 g, and 3 did not measure at least 80% of BWs within 24 hours.</p></sec><sec id="sec015"><title>Independent effects of malaria infection and malnutrition</title><p>The pooled IPTW-adjusted risk ratio (aRR) for the effect of malaria infection at enrollment on LBW was 1.14 (95% CI: 0.91, 1.42; 95% <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0.05 [95% CI: 0.00, 0.25]; PEI: 0.72, 1.80), and the mean BW difference was −55 g (95% CI: −79, −30; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0 [95% CI: 0.00, 1,610]) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pmed.1002373.g003">Fig 3a</xref>). The effect of malaria infection at delivery was more pronounced: aRR, 1.32 (95% CI: 1.08, 1.62; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0.04 [95% CI: 0.00, 0.39]; 95% PEI: 0.91, 1.91) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pmed.1002373.g003">Fig 3b</xref>). When considering SGA and PTB as secondary outcomes, results were similar for malaria infection at enrollment and attenuated for malaria infection at delivery (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s005">S5 Table</xref>). The effect of malaria infection at enrollment was attenuated among those with more than 1 IPTp dose versus 1 or 0 doses (aRR 0.98 versus 1.22) and was slightly stronger among primi/secundigravid versus multigravida women (aRR 1.19 versus 1.14). A slightly stronger effect of malaria infection was seen among women enrolled in studies conducted prior to 2008, in Africa, or with malaria infection prevalence at or above the median (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s012">S2 Fig</xref>).</p><fig id="pmed.1002373.g003" orientation="portrait" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pmed.1002373.g003</object-id><label>Fig 3</label><caption><title>The independent effects of (a) malaria infection at enrollment and (b) malaria infection at delivery on risk of low birthweight and mean birthweight among women enrolled in 1 of 13 studies from the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative.</title><p>The inverse probability of treatment weighted (IPTW) estimates controlled for confounding between malaria at enrollment and low birthweight (LBW) by maternal age, gravidity, area of residence, mid-upper arm circumference at enrollment, and HIV infection. IPTW estimates controlled for confounding between malaria at delivery and LBW and additionally controlled for anemia and number of doses of antimalarial intermittent preventive therapy received during pregnancy. aRR, adjusted risk ratio; BF, Burkina Faso; BW, Birthweight; CI, Confidence interval; DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo; LBW, Low birthweight; N/A, not available; N/C, no model convergence; PNG, Papua New Guinea.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="pmed.1002373.g003"></graphic></fig><p>The aRR for the effect of low MUAC on LBW was 1.60 (95% CI: 1.36, 1.87; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0 [95% CI: 0.00, 0.05]); the mean BW difference was −142 g (95% CI: −171, −113; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0 [95% CI: 0, 100] (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pmed.1002373.g004">Fig 4a</xref>). Results were similar for low BMI: aRR, 1.49 (95% CI: 1.26, 1.76; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0 [95% CI: 0.00, 0.16]); mean BW difference −133 g (95% CI: −158, −108; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0 [95% CI: 0.00, 0.00]) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pmed.1002373.g004">Fig 4b</xref>). There was no modification by study characteristics on the malnutrition–LBW relationship (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s013">S3 Fig</xref>). Similar but weaker trends were observed when SGA was used as the outcome among the studies with ultrasound data, but low MUAC or low BMI were significantly associated with an increased risk of PTB (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s005">S5 Table</xref>).</p><fig id="pmed.1002373.g004" orientation="portrait" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pmed.1002373.g004</object-id><label>Fig 4</label><caption><title>The independent effect of malnutrition at enrollment, (a) mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) < 23 cm and (b) Body Mass Index (BMI)* < 18.5 kg/m<sup>2</sup>, on risk of low birthweight (LBW) and mean birthweight among 14,633 women enrolled in 1 of 13 studies from the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative from 1996 to 2015.</title><p>BMI is adjusted for gestational age to reflect the estimated first trimester weight. Inverse probability of treatment weighted (IPTW) estimates controlling for confounding between malnutrition (MUAC or BMI) at enrollment and LBW by maternal age, gravidity, area of residence, anemia, and HIV infection (where available). BMI, Body mass index; BW, Birthweight. CI, Confidence interval; DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo; MUAC, mid-upper arm circumference; N/A, not available; N/C, no model convergence; PNG, Papua New Guinea.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="pmed.1002373.g004"></graphic></fig></sec><sec id="sec016"><title>Interaction and EMM</title><p>The joint aRR for both malaria infection at enrollment and low MUAC was 2.13 (95% CI: 1.21, 3.73; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0.25 [95% CI: 0.00, 1.82]; 95% PEI: 0.80, 5.67), and the mean BW difference was −163 g (95% CI: −253, −75; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 6,995 [95% CI: 0, 58,414]; 95% PEI: −328, 0). The multiplicative interaction term for LBW was 1.30 (95% CI: 0.62, 2.72; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0.37 [95% CI: 0.00, 3.97]; 95% PEI: 0.39, 4.31), the additive interaction term for LBW was −0.01 (95% CI: −0.09, 0.08; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0.003 [95% CI: 0.00, 0.04]; 95% PEI: −0.11, 0.09), and the additive interaction term for mean BW difference was 38 g (95% CI: −90, 166; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 17,198 [95% CI: 0, 120,165]; 95% PEI: −219, 295). Sensitivity analyses that varied the definitions of malaria, malnutrition, outcome, and analytic approach largely did not qualitatively alter the results; however, restriction to adolescent women did suggest potential multiplicative and additive interaction between low MUAC and malaria infection at enrollment among this subgroup (product term 2.49 [95% CI: 0.88, 7.02]; additive interaction term 0.08 [95% CI: −0.07, 0.22]) (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s006">S6 Table</xref>). Additionally, meta-regression indicated apparent multiplicative interaction and slight additive interaction between MUAC and malaria infection at enrollment among studies conducted in Africa (multiplicative interaction term, 2.47 [95% CI: 1.12, 5.42]; additive interaction contrast, 0.06 [95% CI: −0.05, 0.17] <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s014">S4 Fig</xref>), but this interaction was not seen when assessing malaria infection at delivery or BMI or when accounting for multiple comparisons with a Bonferroni correction (99% CI: 0.88, 6.95). In EMM analyses, the aRR for the effect of malaria infection at enrollment on LBW among low MUAC women was 1.32 (95% CI: 0.66, 2.63; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0.43 [95% CI: 0.00, 3.40]; 95% PEI: 0.36, 4.79), compared to 0.98 (95% CI: 0.74, 1.29; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0 [95% CI: 0.00, 0.32]) among well-nourished women.</p><p>The joint aRR for both malaria infection at delivery and low MUAC was 2.16 (95% CI: 1.25, 3.74; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0.23 [95% CI: 0.00, 1.61]; 95% PEI: 0.84, 5.55), and the mean BW difference was −196 g (95% CI: −301, −92; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 10,904 [95% CI: 0, 86,721]; 95% PEI: −401, 8). The multiplicative interaction term for LBW was 0.82 (95% CI: 0.50, 1.33; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0 [95% CI: 0.00, 3.79]), the additive interaction term for LBW was −0.01 (95% CI: −0.10, 0.07; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 0 [95% CI: 0.00, 0.06]), and the additive interaction term for mean BW difference was −49 g (95% CI: −190, 93; <italic>τ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 20,087 [95% CI: 0, 154,675]; 95% PEI: −326, 229).</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="conclusions" id="sec017"><title>Discussion</title><p>Using the large M3 initiative dataset, we found that pregnant women who were both infected with malaria and malnourished were at greater risk of LBW and reduced mean BW compared to their uninfected, well-nourished counterparts, but there was overall no convincing evidence of synergism, i.e., excess risk due to interaction. This finding was consistent for both time points of malaria diagnosis (at enrollment and delivery) and both definitions of malnutrition (MUAC and BMI). This suggests that malaria infection and malnutrition largely act independently to influence fetal growth and gestational length.</p><p>A 2004 review estimated that women infected with placental malaria were twice as likely to have a LBW infant [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref051" ref-type="bibr">51</xref>]. Our findings are broadly consistent with this review, although with weaker effects on LBW (overall aRR for malaria infection at delivery: 1.32 [95% CI: 1.08, 1.62], aRR restricted to African studies: 1.55 [95% CI: 1.29, 1.85]), possibly reflecting increased access to preventive strategies and fewer chronic infections [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref003" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>,<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref004" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>]. In support of this hypothesis, the effect of malaria infection on LBW appears lower in women who received more doses of IPTp. The effects of malaria infection at enrollment on LBW were weaker than at delivery, contradicting the theory that malaria infection earlier in pregnancy is more disruptive to placental function [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref002" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>]. This weaker effect at enrollment could either suggest that antimalarial treatment, provided in most studies, cleared infection and allowed catch-up growth or that infection at delivery represents more severe infections that were not cleared despite medications. Both malaria infection at enrollment and delivery were associated with a reduction in BW of around 55 grams, which has been found in other studies [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref052" ref-type="bibr">52</xref>].</p><p>Our data are consistent with a 2011 meta-analysis, which estimated that underweight women had increased risk of LBW (aRR: 1.64 [95% CI: 1.38, 1.94]), although studies included in that meta-analysis used different definitions for underweight [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref053" ref-type="bibr">53</xref>]. In our study, using consistent cutoffs of malnutrition across studies, both low MUAC (aRR 1.60 [95% CI: 1.36, 1.87]) and low BMI (aRR 1.49 [95% CI: 1.26, 1.76]) increased the risk of LBW. This information is consistent with other evidence that adequate maternal nutrition is integral for fetal growth [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref005" ref-type="bibr">5</xref>].</p><p>Prior literature on the interaction between malaria infection and malnutrition is sparse. Two studies in the DRC and Kenya showed that the association between malaria infection and reduced fetal growth was greatest among malnourished women [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref010" ref-type="bibr">10</xref>,<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref011" ref-type="bibr">11</xref>]. In a third study in Benin, the effect of malaria infection on fetal growth velocity was greatest among women with low anthropometric status, but there was no modification by maternal nutrition on the effect of malaria infection on BW z-scores. A fourth study in PNG found that the effect of histology-defined placental malaria infection on LBW was higher among women with a low BMI, but that study found that malnutrition did not modify the association between peripheral blood malaria infection parasitemia and SGA [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref009" ref-type="bibr">9</xref>]. The Benin, Congo, and PNG studies were included in the present analysis, but our analytic approach differed from the original publications in the assessment of both interaction and modification. Unlike these prior studies, our pooled results suggest that there is a negligible impact of maternal anthropometry on the relationship between malaria infection and LBW and further indicate that there is no evidence of excess risk of LBW due to interaction (i.e., synergism). There was some indication of multiplicative and additive interaction between low MUAC and malaria infection at enrollment among adolescent women; however, these estimates were very imprecise and were only pooled across 4 studies that enrolled enough adolescent women to assess this subgroup. Adolescent women are recognized to be at high risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref054" ref-type="bibr">54</xref>], and tailored antenatal care programs addressing malaria, nutrition, and other health issues should be considered for this group. In an a priori sensitivity analysis restricted to African studies, there was apparent interaction between malaria infection at enrollment and MUAC, which is consistent with the prior publications. Regional differences could be due to genetics, low MUAC, or anemia prevalence; however, these subregion effects were not statistically significant when properly accounting for multiple comparisons and were absent when using other definitions of malaria (i.e., at delivery) or malnutrition (i.e., BMI). Additionally, the additive interaction, which has been argued to be the more relevant measure for public health impact [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref055" ref-type="bibr">55</xref>], was only slightly elevated among the African studies. Notably, only 183 women (2%) were jointly infected and malnourished (low MUAC). Thus, even if there is a multiplicative interaction between malaria infection and MUAC among African women or among adolescent women, the proportion of women implicated is small, and does not indicate a large public health burden. However, even in the absence of strong interaction between malaria infection and malnutrition on LBW, we emphasize that interventions on both malaria infection and malnutrition are warranted given their independent effects.</p><p>This work had several strengths and limitations. We substantially increased the number of women in whom the hypothesized interaction between malaria infection, malnutrition, and LBW was investigated; notably, the number of pregnant women from Africa was almost 10 times more than all prior studies. Analyzed studies were performed in a variety of settings, increasing the generalizability of these results. Furthermore, availability of individual-level data enabled us to harmonize definitions and minimize heterogeneity. Our work is strengthened by providing results for SGA and PTB as secondary outcomes, which showed findings consistent with LBW. However, we were only able to assess SGA and PTB among a subset of nine of the 13 studies with available ultrasound-dated gestational age. There is no alternative satisfactory dating tool to ultrasound in later pregnancy, thus we used all ultrasound data provided regardless of gestation. Some women were enrolled after 24 weeks gestation (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s002">S2 Table</xref>), reducing the accuracy of ultrasound among these pregnancies and potentially underestimating gestational age in some SGA babies. Missing data were imputed using multivariate normal multiple imputation, and while not all variables followed a normal distribution (e.g., the binary variable LBW), simulation studies have shown that multivariate normal multiple imputation provides less biased estimates than complete-case analysis even when imputing binary or ordinal variables [<xref rid="pmed.1002373.ref056" ref-type="bibr">56</xref>]. We were obliged to pool malaria diagnostics of varying sensitivity and specificity, and we were limited to 2 cross-sectional assessments of malaria infection. Nevertheless, sensitivity analyses that evaluated alternative definitions of malaria, or incorporated repeat diagnostics during pregnancy, were consistent with the main results. Additionally, there may be selection bias due to excluding pregnancy losses. There were only 116 (3%) pregnancy losses in 4 studies (<italic>N</italic> = 4,571) in the M3 initiative that collected these data, but this is almost certainly an underestimate, since many studies enrolled women after the first trimester. We were obliged to extrapolate prepregnancy BMI using gestational age and BMI at enrollment. Additionally, the M3 initiative represents a convenience sample of available and eligible studies identified through the MiPc and not an exhaustive aggregation of all existing studies available to assess interactions between malaria and malnutrition on LBW. This could potentially lead to selection bias if selection of studies were associated with the effect estimates in that study; however, we did not observe any qualitative differences between studies providing individual participant data and those studies not included in the meta-analysis (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pmed.1002373.s003">S3 Table</xref>). Furthermore, women enrolled in studies were likely healthier and received better antenatal care than the general population; the effects of malaria and malnutrition in reality might well be greater than were observed within these research settings. The risk of bias assessment identified 10 studies as being at a higher risk of bias, primarily due to BW not being measured with an electronic scale within 24 hours of delivery. Finally, we cannot discount possible unmeasured confounding, particularly by helminth infections, sexually transmitted infections, environmental pollutants, or micronutrient deficiencies; however, it is important to note that because neither malnutrition nor malaria could be randomized, large-scale, multisite cohort analyses such as this one are necessarily the gold standard for addressing these scientific questions. Future studies may wish to assess joint effects of malaria with other nutritional indicators (e.g., height, obesity, anemia, other micronutrients). Additionally, future studies may wish to further investigate possible interactions between malaria infection and malnutrition on risk of LBW in adolescent mothers.</p><p>In summary, our findings suggest that women who are both infected with malaria and malnourished are at greater risk of LBW than their uninfected, well-nourished counterparts but that there is no conclusive evidence of synergistic interaction between the 2. Rather, we propose that malaria infection and malnutrition act independently to disrupt fetal growth and that malnutrition in particular has a strong effect on LBW. Of all 14,633 pregnancies, 35% were affected by malaria infection and/or malnutrition, illustrating the high burden of at-risk pregnancies in LMICs. Malaria infection and malnutrition represent 2 established and modifiable causes of LBW that should both be addressed to optimize pregnancy outcomes in LMIC.</p></sec><sec sec-type="supplementary-material" id="sec018"><title>Supporting information</title><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s001"><label>S1 Table</label><caption><title>Characteristics of the 13 individual studies included in the Maternal Malnutrition and Malaria (M3) initiative.</title><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s001.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s002"><label>S2 Table</label><caption><title>Descriptions of the scales used to measure birthweight, how gestational age was assessed, and the median gestational age for each of the 13 studies in the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative.</title><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s002.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s003"><label>S3 Table</label><caption><title>Characteristics of studies not included in the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative cohort.</title><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s003.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s004"><label>S4 Table</label><caption><title>Assessment of risk of bias for the 13 studies included in the individual participant data meta-analysis.</title><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s004.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s005"><label>S5 Table</label><caption><title>The independent and joint effects of malaria infection at enrollment, malaria infection at delivery, low mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), and low body mass index (BMI) on the risk of small for gestational age (SGA) and risk of preterm birth among a subset of 9 studies from the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative.</title><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s005.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s006"><label>S6 Table</label><caption><title>Select sensitivity analysis results for the multiplicative interaction effects for malaria and malnutrition on risk of adverse birth outcomes among the 13 studies in the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative.</title><p>Sensitivity analyses varied the definitions of malaria, malnutrition, the outcome of interest, and the approach taken in pooling study results.</p><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s006.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s007"><label>S7 Table</label><caption><title>PRISMA 2009 checklist.</title><p>(DOC)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s007.doc"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s008"><label>S8 Table</label><caption><title>Individual participant data checklist.</title><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s008.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s009"><label>S1 Text</label><caption><title>Multiple imputation.</title><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s009.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s010"><label>S2 Text</label><caption><title>Protocol for the individual participant data project.</title><p>Written 17 November 2014.</p><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s010.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s011"><label>S1 Fig</label><caption><title>Prevalence of low mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC < 23cm) compared to prevalence of low body mass index (BMI < 18.5 kg/m<sup>2</sup>) among the 13 studies in the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative.</title><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s011.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s012"><label>S2 Fig</label><caption><title>Meta-regression results for the effects of malaria infection at enrollment and delivery on risk of low birthweight (LBW) and mean birthweight (BW) by time period, study type, location, and malaria prevalence.</title><p>Median malaria prevalence across studies was 17% at enrollment and 15% at delivery. RCT = randomized control trial.</p><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s012.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s013"><label>S3 Fig</label><caption><title>Meta-regression results for the effects of malnutrition at enrollment, (a) low mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC < 23 cm) and (b) low BMI (BMI < 18.5 kg/m<sup>2</sup>), on risk of low birthweight (LBW) and mean birthweight (BW) by time period, study type, location, and malaria prevalence.</title><p>Median malaria prevalence across studies was 17% at enrollment and 15% at delivery. RCT = randomized control trial.</p><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s013.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s014"><label>S4 Fig</label><caption><title>Meta-regression results for the multiplicative and additive interaction effects for malaria at enrollment or delivery and low mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC < 23 cm) on risk of low birthweight (LBW) and mean birthweight (BW) by time period, study type, location, and malaria prevalence.</title><p>Median malaria prevalence across studies was 17% at enrollment and 15% at delivery.</p><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s014.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pmed.1002373.s015"><label>S5 Fig</label><caption><title>Prevalence of malaria infection at delivery among the 13 studies in the Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative.</title><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pmed.1002373.s015.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material></sec></body><back><ack><p>The findings and conclusions presented in this manuscript are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the National Institutes of Health.</p></ack><glossary><title>Abbreviations</title><def-list><def-item><term>aRR</term><def><p>adjusted risk ratio</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>BMI</term><def><p>body mass index</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>BW</term><def><p>birthweight</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>CI</term><def><p>confidence interval</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>DRC</term><def><p>Democratic Republic of the Congo</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>EMM</term><def><p>effect measure modification</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>FGR</term><def><p>fetal growth restriction</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>HIV</term><def><p>human immunodeficiency virus</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>IPTp</term><def><p>intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>IPTW</term><def><p>inverse probability of treatment weights</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>LBW</term><def><p>low birthweight</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>LM</term><def><p>light microscopy</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>LMIC</term><def><p>low- and middle-income countries</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>M3</term><def><p>Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>MiPc</term><def><p>Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>MUAC</term><def><p>mid-upper arm circumference</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>PCR</term><def><p>polymerase chain reaction</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>PEI</term><def><p>population effects interval</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>PNG</term><def><p>Papua New Guinea</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>RDT</term><def><p>rapid diagnostic test</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>RR</term><def><p>risk ratio</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>SGA</term><def><p>small for gestational age</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>SP</term><def><p>sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine</p></def></def-item><def-item><term>WHO</term><def><p>World Health Organization</p></def></def-item></def-list></glossary><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="pmed.1002373.ref001"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other">WHO | Global Nutrition Targets 2025: Low birth weight policy brief [Internet]. 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