In line with the results of the present study, Mtove et al. [6] found high parasitaemia, deep breathing (also included in the main model from the present analysis), hypoglycaemia and low Hb (terms that were included in the model described in this paper when a backward stepwise approach was performed) to be strongly associated with lactate levels >5 mmol/L. Here, GSTM1 is linked to Hypoglycemia.