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Table 1 Maternal baseline characteristics

From: Recommended reference values for serum lipids during early and middle pregnancy: a retrospective study from China

 

Total

Healthy

With adverse outcomes

p

N = 19,044

N = 11,566

N = 7478

Age (year)

29.5 ± 4.1

29.1 ± 3.9

30.1 ± 4.2

< 0.001

p-BMI (kg/m2)

21.3 ± 4.7

20.7 ± 4.5

22.2 ± 5.0

< 0.001

  < 18.5 (%)

2886 (16.5)

2132 (20.0)

754 (11.0)

 

 18.5–23.9 (%)

11,058 (63.1)

6988 (65.4)

4070 (59.6)

 

 24–27.9 (%)

2639 (15.1)

1203 (11.3)

1436 (21.0)

 

  ≥ 28 (%)

928 (5.3)

359 (3.4)

569 (8.3)

 

Education level

   

0.396

 College or higher (%)

12,766 (73.2)

7786 (73.1)

4980 (73.3)

 

 Up to high school (%)

4683 (26.8)

2866 (26.9)

1817 (26.7)

 
  1. Continuous variables were expressed as the means ± SD and categorical variables were expressed as n (%)
  2. Abbreviations: p-BMI pre-pregnancy body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in metres)
  3. P value indicates a significant difference between the healthy group and the adverse outcomes group