Labor characteristics and intrapartum interventions in women with vaginal birth after cesarean section

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the study groups

	total VBAC group (n = 139)	VBAC group A (n = 109)	VBAC group B (n = 30)	Primipara Control group (n = 149)	Multipara Control group (n = 155)	P values
	total VBAC group (n = 139)	VBAC group A (n = 109)	VBAC group B (n = 30)	Primipara Control group (n = 149)	Multipara Control group (n = 155)	p^a	p^b	p^c	p^d	p^e
Mother’s age (years)	30.36 ± 3.76	30.21 ± 3.75	30.90 ± 3.81	29.87 ± 2.68	29.85 ± 3.29	0.198	0.217	0.389	0.121	0.376
Antepartum BMI (kg/m²)	25.69 ± 2.68	25.49 ± 2.69	26.41 ± 2.55	25.26 ± 2.74	25.56 ± 2.60	0.188	0.689	0.515	0.104	0.097
Gestational age (weeks)	38.82 ± 0.97	38.85 ± 0.97	38.69 ± 0.98	38.88 ± 1.08	39.01 ± 0.87	0.623	0.073	0.749	0.075	0.433
Newborn weight (g)	3225.76 ± 369.32	3200.18 ± 357.26	3318.67 ± 402.93	3213.02 ± 285.27	3295.87 ± 283.63	0.743	0.067	0.845	0.709	0.120

The comparisons of baseline characteristics of the study groups were with normal. distributions and were conducted by Student t-test
Data are given as mean ± SD
^a The comparison between total VBAC group and Primipara Control group
^b The comparison between total VBAC group and Multipara Control group
^c The comparison between VBAC group A and Primipara Control group
^d The comparison between VBAC group B and Multipara Control group
^e The comparison between VBAC group A and VBAC group B

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