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Table 1 Distribution of risk variables of clinically eligible pregnant women

From: Basic vaginal pH, bacterial vaginosis and aerobic vaginitis: prevalence in early pregnancy and risk of spontaneous preterm delivery, a prospective study in a low socioeconomic and multiethnic South American population

a) pH score

%

3.5

1.0

4

28.1

4.5

36.5

5.0

25.0

5.5

9.0

6.0

0.4

Total (N = 1699)

100.0

b) Ethnicity

%

White

34.1

Interracial

41.5

Black

24.4

Total (N = 1699)

100.0

c) Gestational age at smear collection (pH score > =4.5)

%

< 14 wks

42.4

14-20 wks

57.6

Total (N = 1199)

100.0