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Table 1 Time-varying and time-invariant participant characteristics by pregnancy category

From: Incident HIV during pregnancy and early postpartum period: a population-based cohort study in a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Characteristic

Not pregnant

(n = 18,095 episodes)

n (%)

Pregnant

(n = 3003 episodes)

n (%)

Postpartum

(n = 1952 episodes)

n (%)

Time-varying

 Age 15–24 years

7595 (41.97)

1794 (59.74)

1089 (55.79)

Time-invariant: Sociodemographic

 Episode Typea

  Resident

16,745 (92.54)

2698 (89.84)

1776 (90.98)

  Non-resident

1281 (7.08)

304 (10.12)

175 (8.97)

  Non-resident prior to residency

69 (0.38)

1 (0.03)

1 (0.05)

 Home settinga

  Peri-urban

4971 (27.47)

849 (28.27)

547 (28.02)

  Rural

11,502 (63.56)

1956 (65.13)

1282 (65.68)

  Urban

614 (3.39)

81 (2.70)

59 (3.02)

  Unknown

1008 (5.57)

117 (3.90)

64 (3.28)

  Mean distance from level 1 road (standard deviation), kma

12.7 (22.0)

11.2 (18.9)

10.7 (17.6)

 Maternal educationa

  Less than one year

805 (4.45)

27 (0.90)

19 (0.97)

  At least primary school

2223 (12.29)

173 (5.76)

126 (6.45)

  Secondary and beyond

13,391 (74.0)

2602 (86.65)

1678 (85.96)

  Unknown

1676 (9.26)

201 (6.69)

129 (6.61)

Time-varying: Pregnancy

 Pregnancy order

  First born

0 (0)

796 (40.93)

708 (40.50)

  Second/third born

0 (0)

790 (40.62)

710 (40.62)

  Fourth or later

0 (0)

359 (18.46)

330 (18.88)

  Not pregnant

6479 (100)

0 (0.0)

0 (0)

Time-varying: Pregnancy

 Number of live born infants at delivery

  No births

18,095 (100)

31 (1.03)

19 (0.97)

  Singleton

0 (0.00)

2902 (96.64)

1885 (96.57)

  Multiple births

0 (0.00)

70 (2.33)

48 (2.46)

Time-invariant: Pregnancy

 Gravidityb

  None

2691 (14.87)

0 (0)

0 (0)

  One pregnancy

4678 (25.85)

943 (31.40)

597 (30.58)

  Two or more pregnancies

10,726 (59.28)

2060 (68.60)

1355 (69.42)

Time-invariant: HIV status & knowledge

   

 Knows HIV status

   

  Yes

13,780 (76.15)

2533 (84.35)

1649 (84.48)

  No

3478 (19.22)

355 (11.82)

229 (11.73)

  Missing

837 (4.63)

115 (3.83)

74 (3.79)

 Heard about ART

   

  Yes

15,581 (86.11)

2669 (88.88)

1742 (89.24)

  No

443 (2.45)

50 (1.67)

33 (1.69)

  Missing

2071 (11.45)

284 (9.46)

177 (9.07)

  1. aCharacteristic quantified at the last visit
  2. bGravidity includes all pregnancies (prior and current) reported by a participant