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Table 1 Demographic characteristics and pregnancy outcomes of the 461 women included in the analysis

From: Relationship between body mass index and mean arterial pressure in normotensive and chronic hypertensive pregnant women: a prospective, longitudinal study

    

Normotensive

Hypertensive

BMI (kg/m2)

 
 

n (%)

p-value*

n = 429

n = 32

p-value**

16–24

25–29

30–50

p-value***

Age years [years (%)]

16–24

102 (22 %)

<0.001

102 (24 %)

0

<0.001

66 (26 %)

20 (17 %)

16 (18 %)

0.047

25–35

303 (66 %)

285 (66 %)

18 (56 %)

164 (65 %)

78 (66 %)

61 (67 %)

36–43

56 (12 %)

42 (10 %)

14 (44 %)

22 (9 %)

20 (17 %)

14 (15 %)

Parity [n (%)]

0

238 (52 %)

0.485

226 (53 %)

12 (38 %)

0.140

135 (54 %)

54 (46 %)

49 (54 %)

0.335

≥1

223 (48 %)

203 (47 %)

20 (62 %)

117 (46 %)

64 (54 %)

42 (46 %)

Gestational age at delivery, weeks [mean (SD)]

39.22 (1.20)

-

NA

39.24 (1.17)

38.93 (1.68)

0.308

39.21 (1.18)

39.20 (1.28)

39.25 (1.22)

0.960

Foetal sex [n (%)]

Female

245 (53 %)

0.177

229 (53 %)

16 (50 %)

0.852

129 (51 %)

62 (53 %)

54 (59 %)

0.405

Male

216 (47 %)

200 (47 %)

16 (50 %)

123 (49 %)

56 (47 %)

37 (41 %)

Birth weight at delivery, g [mean (SD)]

3128 (334)

-

NA

3136 (329)

3007 (379)

0.070

3116 (350)

3167 (321)

3108 (301)

0.042

Apgar Score Index at 5′

<7

0

NA

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

<0.001

0

0

0

<0.001

7–10

461 (100 %)

429 (100 %)

32 (100 %)

252 (100 %)

118 (100 %)

91 (100 %)

  1. BMI body mass index, SD standard deviation
  2. *p - tested equality of population frequencies amongst the different categories of a variable
  3. **p - tested homogeneity of the proportions between HT (hypertensive) and NT (normotensive)
  4. ***p - tested homogeneity of the proportions between normal weight, overweight and obese