Cross sectional study in China: fetal gender has adverse perinatal outcomes in mainland China

Table 5 The relationship between fetal gender and neonatal outcomes

Deliveries	No of individual modes/total No	Crude OR (95% CI)	Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Apgar < 7 at 5 min)^a (5346 missing cases for this outcomes)
Female	193/47728	1	1
Male	294/56648	1.3 (1.1-1.5)^*	1.3 (1.0-1.6)^*
Admission to neonatal ICU^b (35 missing cases for this outcomes)
Female	455/49675	1	1
Male	624/60012	1.1 (1.0-1.3)^*	1.3 (1.1-1.5)^#
Neonatal death^c (35 missing cases for this outcomes)
Female	124/49675	1	0
Male	241/60012	1.6 (1.3-2.0)^#	1.4 (1.1-1.8)^*

*p < 0.05, ^# p < 0.001.
^aAdjusted for grade of hospitals, resident, maternal education, primiparous, bad obstetrics history, modes of delivery, birth weight, HDCP, PROM, placenta previa, placenta abruption, other medical disorders, NRFHT, multiple fetus, malpresentation.
^bAdjusted for maternal age, grade of hospitals, resident, maternal education, primiparous, bad obstetrics history, modes of delivery, birth weight, HDCP, PROM, placenta previa, placenta abruption, NRFHT, , multiple fetus,
^cAdjusted for grade of hospitals, resident, maternal education, primiparous, bad obstetrics history, modes of delivery, birth weight, HDCP, PROM, placenta abruption, other medical disorders, NRFHT, multiple fetus, malpresentation.
5346 missing cases for Apgar scores at 5 minutes, 35 missing cases for neonatal ICU, 35 missing cases for neonatal death.

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