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Table 2 Gestational age at booking stratified by maternal ethnicity

From: Predictors of the timing of initiation of antenatal care in an ethnically diverse urban cohort in the UK

Self-defined ethnicity

Gestational age at booking (weeks)

Total

 

Median

Up to 12

13 to 19

20 or more

 
 

(LQ, UQ)

(+6 days)

(+6 days)

  

British (White)

10

2,768

735

372

3,875

(9, 13)

71.4%

19.0%

9.6%

African

12

1,499

802

414

2,715

(except Somali)

(10, 16)

55.2%

29.5%

15.2%

Somali

13

214

169

97

480

(10, 18)

44.6%

35.2%

20.2%

Caribbean

11

375

157

59

591

(9, 14)

63.5%

26.6%

10.0%

Eastern European

12

1,438

699

394

2,531

(9, 16)

56.8%

27.6%

15.6%

Other White

11

257

94

44

395

(9, 14)

65.1%

23.8%

11.1%

Bangladeshi

11

1,769

794

304

2,867

(incl. British)

(9, 15)

61.7%

27.7%

10.6%

Indian

11

1,200

460

182

1,842

(incl. British)

(9, 14)

65.1%

25.0%

9.9%

Pakistani

11

2,018

743

348

3,109

(incl. British)

(9, 14)

64.9%

23.9%

11.2%

Other Asian

12

586

251

120

957

(10, 15)

61.2%

26.2%

12.5%

Other

12

414

185

86

685

(10, 15)

60.4%

27.0%

12.6%

Overall

11

12,538

5,089

2,420

20,047

 

(9,15)

62.5%

25.4%

12.1%

 
  1. LQ, Lower (25th) quartile; UQ, upper (75th) quartile.