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Table 1 Maternal age, parity and smoking habits in births of females with IJD and reference births from the general population by year of delivery, Norway 1967-2009

From: Reproductive trends in females with inflammatory joint disease

Period

Groups

Number of births per period n

Proportion of births in women with IJD compared to references (%)

Maternal age at delivery (years) mean (SD)

p-value

Parity mean (SD)

p-value

Smoking at time of conception (%)

p-value

1967-1979

IJD women

645

0.08

28.2 (5.6)

<0.001

1.0 (1.1)

0.6

n.a.

 

References

773563

26.2 (5.3)

1.0 (1.1)

 

n.a.

1980-1989

IJD women

1613

0.3

28.3 (5.1)

<0.001

0.8 (0.9)

0.2

n.a.

 

References

517621

27.3 (5.0)

0.9 (1.0)

 

n.a.

1990-1999

IJD women

2508

0.4

29.7 (5.2)

<0.001

1.0 (1.1)

0.007

n.a.

 

References

581627

28.7 (5.0)

0.9 (1.0)

 

n.a.

2000-2009

IJD women

2736

0.5

31.1 (5.1)

<0.001

1.0 (1.1)

<0.001

22.9

p < 0.0001

References

564299

30.0 (5.1)

0.9 (1.0)

 

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  1. IJD inflammatory joint disease, SD standard deviation, n.a. not applicable