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Table 8 Preterm deliveries across maternal thyroid categories

From: Thyroid dysfunction in pregnancy - a retrospective observational analysis of a Maltese cohort

Maternal Thyroid category

Number of patients with pre-term delivery at < 34 weeks (total number of patients for whom data available)

P value for the comparison vs euthyroid patients a, b

Euthyroid

1328 (45,680)

-

Hypothyroid

5 (395)

0.067

Hyperthyroid

3 (19)

0.017

Isolated Hypothyroxinaemia

2 (166

0.248

  1. a two-tailed p value (Chi Square test)
  2. b two-tailed p value [Fisher’s exact test]