Maternal nutritional adequacy and gestational weight gain and their associations with birth outcomes among Vietnamese women

Table 3 Birth outcomes by study group

Characteristics	Intervention N = 113	Control N = 113	p-value
Gestational age, mean (SD)	39.1 (1.3)	39.1 (1.6)	0.8026^a
Delivery method, n (%)
Caesarean	35 (31.5)	30 (27.3)	0.4872
Infant’s sex, n (%)			0.9503^b
Male	60 (54.1)	59 (53.6)
Female	51 (46.0)	51 (46.4)
Birth weight (g), mean (SD)	3153 (347)	3044 (385)	0.0346^a
Birth length (cm), mean (SD)	49.0 (1.7)	48.7 (2.2)	0.5195^a
Head circumference (cm), mean (SD)	33.1 (1.3)	32.7(1.6)	0.1204^a

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