Figure 2

Prevalence of primary placental pathology according to ethnicity (N = 192). The X-axis depicts the 4 types of primary placental pathology with the total number of women in each group below. The Y-axis is the percentage of cases in each pathology group based on ethnicity with the denominator being the total number of women in each ethnicity group (Indigenous = 79, Non-Indigenous = 113). The percentage of cases in each pathology group is shown inside the columns. There was a significant difference in the prevalence of placental inflammation in Indigenous women compared with non-Indigenous (45.6% vs 25.7%). In contrast, non-Indigenous women had a higher prevalence of vascular pathology compared with Indigenous women (30.1% vs 13.9%). There were no differences in the ‘No Pathology’ and ‘Other’ pathology comparing Indigenous women to non-Indigenous women.