Health Care Consumption during Pregnancy in relation to Maternal Body Mass Index: A Swedish Population Based Observational Study
Table 1
Maternal characteristics and morbidities.
<20 ()
20–<25 ()
25–<30 ()
30–<35 ()
35+ ()
Total ()
Age
Mean (SD)
27.1 (4.9)
28.3 (4.9)
28.4 (5.2)
28.1 (5.2)
28.3 (5.2)
28.1 (5.0)
Smoking three months before pregnancy
(%)
1676 (20.0%)
7290 (18.1%)
3625 (22.6%)
1319 (26.9%)
615 (29.5%)
14525 (20.3%)
Smoking at admission to Maternal Health Care Center
(%)
672 (8.0%)
2229 (5.5%)
1189 (7.4%)
496 (10.1%)
269 (12.9%)
4855 (6.8%)
Smoking, during gestational weeks 30–32
(%)
456 (5.4%)
1492 (3.7%)
857 (5.3%)
372 (7.6%)
215 (10.3%)
3392 (4.7%)
Asthma and other lung diseases
%
7.24%
7.58%
9.43%
11.77%
13.78%
8.42%
Ulcerative colitis/Crohn’s disease
%
0.66%
0.70%
0.75%
0.67%
0.82%
0.70%
Epilepsy
%
0.54%
0.48%
0.62%
0.67%
0.62%
0.54%
Chronic kidney disease
%
0.48%
0.37%
0.46%
0.51%
0.38%
0.41%
Pregestational hypertension
%
0.21%
0.23%
0.51%
0.84%
0.96%
0.35%
Diabetes mellitus
%
0.08%
0.20%
0.52%
0.43%
0.96%
0.30%
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
%
0.10%
0.09%
0.09%
0.12%
0.05%
0.09%
denotes significant difference between BMI between 20 and <25, between 25 and <30, and # between 30 and <35. Single legends denote significance at level <0.05 and double legends denote significance at the <0.001 level.
