The Effects of Anemia on Pregnancy Outcome in Patients with Pyelonephritis

Table 3

Pyelonephritis admission data.

	Pyelonephritis with anemia; 𝑛=45	Pyelonephritis without anemia; 𝑛=69	P value
Length of stay, days	4.0 ± 1.7	4.1 ± 1.7	0.88
Gestational age at admission, weeks	25 ± 5.6	22.4 ± 9.1	0.058
Gestational age at admission by trimester, n (%)			0.0003
1st	0 (0)	13 (18.8)
2nd	33 (73.3)	34 (49.3)
3rd	12 (26.7)	22 (31.9)
Laboratory data
White blood; cell count, ×10^9a	13.3 ± 4.6	14.1 ± 4.5	0.42
Hematocrit, %^a	29.2 ± 1.7	34.4 ± 2.0	<0.0001
MCV, fL^a,b	82.7 ± 5.7	85.8 ± 6.5	0.009
MCV < 80 fl, n (%)^b	9 (20)	9 (13)	0.32
Creatinine, mg/dL	0.69 ± 0.4	0.66 ± 0.2	0.64
Urinary pathogen,; E.  coli, n (% )	29/43 (67.4)	50/68 (73.5)	0.49

aValues are mean ± SD.
^bMCV: mean corpuscular volume.