VEGFA and malaria: Within the severe malaria group there was a significant difference in cytoplasmic accumulation of VEGF in neurons between brain regions (P = 0.005), with a lower frequency found in the cortex compared with the brainstem (P = 0.003), and a similar trend was found in the cortex and the diencephalon (P = 0.04) but not between diencephalon and brainstem (P = 0.15).