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Table 1 Total number of studies and participants per antimalarial drug, with number of studies including children and pregnant women

From: The arrhythmogenic cardiotoxicity of the quinoline and structurally related antimalarial drugs: a systematic review

Drug

Total number of studies

Total number of participants who had drug

Total number of participants who had ECGs

Total number of studies which included children

Total number of studies which included pregnant women

Total number of studies which included pharmacokinetic analysis

Quinine

51

2611

2320

18

1

19

Mefloquine

45

7874

3099

13

2

19

Lumefantrine

39

5703

4787

19

3

19

Piperaquine

24

15,224

5083

7

1

12

Halofantrine

22

822

774

7

0

10

Chloroquine

17

1207

1076

6

0

10

Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine

14

1288

695

4

2

5

Amodiaquine

10

569

452

2

1

8

Primaquine

7

150

150

0

0

4

  1. Forty-nine studies evaluated more than one of the drugs included in this review. These articles have been included under each of the appropriate drugs for analysis