The association between maternal cytomegalovirus urinary excretion and congenital infection rate

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the study population

Parameter	Positive Urinary CMV (n = 77)	Negative Urinary CMV (n = 49)	p-value
Age, years	31.2 ± 3.4	29.7 ± 4.4	0.043
Gravidity	2.5 ± 1	2.4 ± 1.3	0.901
Parity	1.2 ± 0.8	1.2 ± 1	0.824
Nulliparity	9 (11.7%)	8 (16.3%)	0.593
Maternal chronic disease^a	13 (16.9%)	9 (18.4%)	0.42

Data presented as mean ± standard deviation for continuous variables and as n(%) for categorical variables
^a includes asthma, hypothyroidism, epilepsy, chronic hypertension and diabetes mellitus

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