Clinical Study
Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes of Exercise in Pregnant Women with Chronic Hypertension and/or Previous Preeclampsia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Table 2
Mode of delivery and maternal outcomes in pregnant women with chronic hypertension and/or previous PE, according to exercise or nonexercise group.
| Outcome | Study group () | Control group () | Relative risk (95% CI) | P valuea |
| Mode of delivery, (%) | | | | 0.13 | Vaginal delivery | 20 (35.7) | 12 (22.6) | Reference | | Cesarean | 36 (64.3) | 41 (77.4) | 0.83 (0.65–1.06) | | Reason for C-section, (%) | | | | | Repeat C-sections | 8 (17.4) | 13 (26.5) | 0.62 (0.28–1.37) | 0.22 | Fetal distress | 8 (17.4) | 10 (20.4) | 0.80 (0.34–1.88) | 0.60 | Maternal disease | 12 (26.1) | 13 (26.5) | 0.92 (0.46–1.85) | 0.82 | Cephalopelvic disproportion/macrosomia | 3 (6.5) | 4 (8.2) | 0.75 (0.18–3.20) | 1.00b | Failure to induce labor | 8 (17.4) | 3 (6.1) | 2.67 (0.74–9.55) | 0.11 | Other | 7 (15.2) | 6 (12.3) | 1.17 (0.42–3.26) | 0.76 | Maternal morbidity, (%) | | | | 0.89b | No morbidity | 48 (85.7) | 44 (83) | Reference | | PE | 7 (12.5) | 8 (15.1) | 0.86 (0.32–2.12) | | Other | 1 (1.8) | 1 (1.9) | 0.92 (0.06–14.25) | | Maternal admission to the intensive unit care, (%) | 5 (9.1) | 8 (15.1) | 0.60 (0.21–1.72) | 0.33 |
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Calculated with chi-square test; bcalculated with Fisher’s exact test; PE: preeclampsia.
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