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Here, we sought to determine the predictors of birth weight in\u00a0a cohort of 140\u00a0women with malaria in pregnancy, who were recruited at the Webuye\u00a0County hospital\u00a0in Western Kenya. All study participants underwent\u00a0malaria diagnosis through microscopic examination of blood\u00a0smear samples and\u00a0were\u00a0grouped into\u00a0the malaria-positive and malaria-negative\u00a0groups.\u00a0Both groups were followed up beginning at the first antenatal visit (March 2022) until\u00a0delivery (December 2022)\u00a0and various data, including\u00a0demographic, parity, gravidity, socioeconomic,\u00a0maternal and\u00a0fetal outcomes\u00a0were collected. Data analyses\u00a0were done\u00a0using SPSS version\u00a027. Chi-square and Fisher\u2019s Exact tests\u00a0were used for bivariate\u00a0and relative risk analyses at a <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-value of \u22640.05 (95%)\u00a0confidence level. Most of the participants were aged 18\u201325\u2009years, were primigravidas and\u00a0married, had secondary school-level education, earned 20\ufeff\u201330 thousand Kenya\u00a0shillings, resided in rural areas, and were in the\u00a0second trimester.\u00a0There were 6 (4.6%) cases of low birth weight, 3 (4.5%) in the malaria-negative group and 3 (4.7%) in the malaria-positive\u00a0group. During\u00a0pregnancy, 41 (31.5%)\u00a0were anaemic, 5 (3.8%)\u00a0were HIV-positive, 5 (3.8%)\u00a0had preeclampsia,\u00a0and 2 (1.5%)\u00a0had gestational diabetes. Our analyses show that\u00a0confounding factors like anaemia, HIV, pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes did not influence birthweight (<jats:italic>p\u00a0<\/jats:italic>\u2265\u00a00.923). The malaria-positive and malaria-negative groups\u00a0did\u00a0not differ significantly with regard to the low birth weight (relative risk: 0.999, 95%\u00a0confidence interval: 0.926\u20131.077). Marital status, gestational age, and area of residence were associated with malaria <jats:italic>p\u00a0<\/jats:italic>\u2264\u00a00.001,\u00a0\u2264 0.001\u00a0and 0.028 respectively. 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