Skip to main content

Table 1 Characteristics of women with clinical risk factors for pre-eclampsia (PE), according to their PE status

From: Prediction of pre-eclampsia and its subtypes in high-risk cohort: hyperglycosylated human chorionic gonadotropin in multivariate models

 

Women affected by PE (N = 34)

Women not affected by PE (N = 223)

p-value

ORa

95% CI Lower Upper

Age, years (SD) b

31.5 (5.8)

32.2 (5.7)

0.58

0.98

0.92

1.05

BMI, pre-pregnancy (kg/m2) (SD)b

29.7 (7.3)

28.1 (6.7)

0.19

1.04

0.98

1.09

Primiparous, n (%)

9 (26.5)

52 (23.2)

0.55

0.76

0.31

1.85

Infertility treatment, n (%)

4 (13.3)

24 (11.5)

0.88

0.91

0.28

2.99

Chronic disease, n (%)

18 (52.9)

93 (42.3)

0.67

0.84

0.38

1.88

Education, n (%)

Elementary or less

3 (9.7)

4 (2.1)

0.04

4.98

1.06

23.44

High school or vocational school

8 (25.8)

57 (30.0)

0.64

0.81

0.34

1.92

Intermediate

14 (45.2)

81 (42.6)

0.79

1.12

0.52

2.38

University

6 (19.4)

48 (25.3)

0.49

0.71

0.28

1.83

  1. aBinary logistic regression
  2. bMean
  3. OR odds ratio, BMI body mass index, CI confidence interval, SD standard deviation,