Obstetric outcomes for women with female genital mutilation at an Australian hospital, 2006–2012: a descriptive study

Table 4 Demographics of women with FGM recorded at time of obstetric visit at study hospital between 2006 and 2012

	FGM status^a			FGM status^a
	Type III	Type I/II	No	Type III	Type I/II	No
	n	n	n	%	%	%
Age group
15–19	0	1	326	0.0	0.8	3.7
20–24	8	33	2243	12.3	25.2	25.3
25–29	21	29	2862	32.3	22.1	32.3
30–34	21	43	2216	32.3	32.8	25.0
35–39	11	22	972	16.9	16.8	11.0
40+	4	3	233
Region of birth
East Africa^b	58	73	157	89.2	55.7	1.8
Western/Southern Africa	6	39	56	9.2	29.8	0.6
North Africa and Middle East	0	7	2057	0.0	5.3	23.2
Asia	1	12	2267	1.5	9.2	25.6
Others	0	0	4315	0.0	0.0	48.7
Parity
0	13	39	3444	0.0	29.8	38.9
1	9	35	2472	20.0	26.7	27.9
2	15	20	1408	13.8	15.3	15.9
3	14	18	808	23.1	13.7	9.1
4 or more	14	19	720	21.5	14.5	8.1
Number of previous preterm or nonviable pregnancies
0	44	61	5749	67.7	46.6	64.9
1	8	40	2051	12.3	30.5	23.2
2	9	10	710	13.8	7.6	8.0
3	3	14	206	4.6	10.7	2.3
4 or more	1	6	136	1.5	4.6	1.5
BMI
< 18.5	2	3	370	3.7	2.7	4.8
18.5–24.9	19	44	3982	35.2	40.0	51.2
25.0–29.9	21	43	2037	38.9	39.1	26.2
30+	12	20	1387	22.2	18.2	17.8
Missing data	11	21	1076
Hypertension
Essential/Renal	0	0	30	0	0.0	0.3
Gestational/Pre-eclampsia/Eclampsia	3	5	318	4.7	3.8	3.6
No	61	125	8437	95.3	96.2	96.0
Missing data	1	1	67
Diabetes
Pre-existing	0	1	46	0	0.8	0.5
Gestational	11	10	655	17.2	7.7	7.5
No	53	119	8078	82.8	91.5	92.0
Missing data	1	1	73
Smoking status in pregnancy
No	64	128	8321	100.0	98.5	94.4
Yes	0	2	495	0.0	1.5	5.6
Missing data	1	1	36	100.0	98.5	94.4

^aFGM status and type were determined from examining both the ObstetriX and Midwives Databases. If there was a disagreement between the two databases, the Midwives Database was deemed to be the correct record. If the type of FGM for an individual woman differed at different visits, then the most severe type was chosen as the correct type and applied to all obstetric records
Women may have more than one obstetric record during the period 2006–2012. Seventy-six percent of women had only one obstetric record (i.e. gave birth once). The average number was 1.3 and the maximum 6
FGM status was grouped as:
Type I/II = Unknown, Type I, Type I-II, Type II
Type III = Type II/III, Type III
^bEast Africa is defined as Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and Kenya. Western and Southern African countries include Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. North Africa and the Middle East categories include Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Women from Asia were from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Singapore

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