Research Article

Awareness about a Life-Threatening Condition: Ectopic Pregnancy in a Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity in Brazil

Table 4

Estimated risk of worse outcome (MNM + MD) among maternal morbidity cases due to ectopic pregnancy according to some sociodemographic characteristics.

CharacteristicsMNM + MDPLTCPR95% CI

Age (years)
 10–19 11.5 6.61.830.78–4.27
 20–29 46.252.1(Ref.)
 30–39 34.636.01.080.37–3.15
 40–49 7.7 5.21.580.31–8.08
 ( )(26)(286)
Marital status (a)
 Married/cohabitating55.646.91.380.49–3.88
 Single/separated/widow 44.453.1(Ref.)
 ( )(18)(224)
School education (b)
 Fundamental (primary)47.142.8(Ref.)
 Medium (high) 41.246.10.830.29–2.38
 Superior (university)11.811.20.960.17–5.34
  ( ) (17)(152)
Skin color/ethnicity (c)
 White 72.737.5(Ref.)
 Nonwhite 27.362.50.260.05–1.32
  ( ) (22)(192)

MNM: maternal near miss; MD: maternal death; PLTC: potentially life-threatening condition; PR: prevalence ratio adjusted for cluster effect; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval for prevalence ratio. Missing values for (a) 70 cases; (b) 143; (c) 98.