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Table 3 Crude associations between reproductive variables, quality and access to prenatal care, maternal morbidity, and habits in the pregnancy, place and type of delivery, and child’s sex (hierarchical levels 2 and 3) and LBW, prematurity, and IUGR. Baseline of the Guarani Indigenous Cohort, South and Southeast Brazil, 2014–2016

From: Low birthweight, prematurity, and intrauterine growth restriction: results from the baseline data of the first indigenous birth cohort in Brazil (Guarani Birth Cohort)

Hierarchical level, dimension, and variable

LBW

Prematurity

IUGR

OR (95%CI)

p-value

OR (95%CI)

p-value

OR (95%CI)

p-value

Level 2a

Reproductive variables

  Parity

   Multiparous

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Primiparous

1.58 (0.77–3.24)

0.216

1.73 (0.89–3.33)

0.104*

4.66 (1.68–12.95)

0.003*

  Abortions and stillbirths

   No

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Yes

1.14 (0.5–2.64)

0.749

1.48 (0.65–3.38)

0.356

3.3 (0.43–25.57)

0.252

Quality of prenatal care

  Limited indicator

   Adequate

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Inadequate

1.69 (0.92–3.09)

0.091*

1.71 (0.94–3.11)

0.076*

0.82 (0.29–2.3)

0.702

  Expanded indicator

   Adequate

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Inadequate

1.47 (0.8–2.69)

0.215

1.56 (0.85–2.85)

0.152*

0.82 (0.3–2.26)

0.702

Level 3b

Maternal morbidity

  Hypertension

   No

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Yes

3.84 (0.88–16.74)

0.074*

0.80 (0.09–6.84)

0.839

5.21 (0.56–48.48)

0.147*

  Urinary infection in pregnancy

   No

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Yes

1.18 (0.61–2.29)

0.624

1.23 (0.60–2.51)

0.575

0.53 (0.18–1.57)

0.254

Maternal nutritional status

  Chronic anemia before pregnancy

   No

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Yes

6.41 (1.7–24.16)

0.006*

1.56 (0.30–8.03)

0.598

7.21 (1.29–40.38)

0.025*

  Pregestational nutritional status

   Underweight

1.32 (0.24–7.12)

0.753

2.53 (0.45–14.15)

0.289

2.22 (0.24–4.12)

0.486

   Adequate

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Excess weight

0.54 (0.24–1.18)

0.12*

0.80(0.39–1.61)

0.524

1.17 (0.33–4.12)

0.805

  Gestational weight gain

   Insufficient

1.71 (0.71–4.12)

0.228

0.85 (0.38–1.91)

0.691

0.38 (0.11–1.3)

0.123*

   Adequate

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Excessive

1.37 (0.42–4.47)

0.599

0.99 (0.33–2.91)

0.979

0.53 (0.1–2.89)

0.123*

Maternal habits in pregnancy

  Smoking

   No

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Yes

1.35 (0.3–6.13)

0.701

2.72 (0.35–21.29)

0.34

0.75 (0.09–6.23)

0.791

  Alcohol use

   No

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

   Yes

2.13 (0.77–5.87)

0.145*

1.83 (0.33–10.12)

0.489

0.77 (0.09–6.34)

0.805

Type of delivery (hospital)

  Vaginal

1.00

 

1.00

 

1.00

 

  Cesarean

0.76 (0.27–2.12)

0.597

1.66 (0.29–9.57)

0.569

0.39 (0.05–3.22)

0.385

Child’s sex

  Female

1.52 (0.83–2.78)

0.174*

0.80 (0.44–1.45)

0.461

NA

NA

  Male

1.00

 

1.00

   
  1. LBW Low birthweight, IUGR Intrauterine growth restriction, NA Not applicable
  2. *Categories of independent variables associated with the outcome, with level of significance p < 0.20, indicating that the variable was included in the multivariate analysis at its hierarchical level
  3. aOR of level 2 variables in the hierarchical model were adjusted for the variables that remained in level 1
  4. bOR of level3 variables in the hierarchical model were adjusted for the variables that remained in levels 1 and 2