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Table 2 Birth outcomes of pregnant women receiving antenatal care in the interior of Suriname (N = 203)

From: Adequate antenatal care and ethnicity affect preterm birth in pregnant women living in the tropical rainforest of Suriname

t2.1

Variable

N = 203

(%)

Mean ± SD

    

p-value

t2.2

Birth weight (grams)

   

Tribal (N = 99)

 

Indigenous (N = 104)

 

t2.3

Mean

  

3080 ± 468

3093 ± 515.3

3068 ± 420.7

 

t2.4

<  2500

16

7.9

 

8 (50.0)

 

8 (50.0)

 

p = 0.385

t2.5

≥ 2500

182

89.6

 

88 (48.4)

 

94 (51.6)

  

t2.6

Missing

5

2.5

      

t2.7

Preterm birth (weeks)

       

t2.8

Mean

  

38.6 ± 2.1

 

39 ± 1.7

 

38 ± 2.1

 

t2.9

<  37

30

14.8

 

9 (30.0)

 

21 (70.0)

 

p = 0.046*

t2.1

≥ 37

167

82.2

 

87 (52.1)

 

80 (47.9)

  

t2.1

Missing

6

3.0

      

t2.1

Apgar score

        

t2.1

< 7 at 5 min

5

2.5

      

t2.1

≥7 at 5 min

194

95.5

      

t2.1

Missing

4

2.0

      

t2.1

Stillbirth

5

2.5

 

3

 

2

  
  1. *Fishers’s exact test