Research Article
Maternal Body Mass Index and Anovaginal Distance in Active Phase of Term Labor
Table 1
Maternal and obstetrical characteristics of the study population.
| | | BMI < 25
| 25 ≤ BMI < 30
| BMI ≥ 30
| value |
| | Age mean (SD) | 28.5 (4.0) | 29.7 (5.7) | 27.4 (5.2) | 0.06 | | Weight gain during pregnancy (kg) mean (SD) | 13.7 (4.2) | 14.5 (6.5) | 14.2 (6.6) | 0.66 | | Gestational weeks mean (SD) | 40.4 (1.2) | 40.5 (1.2) | 40.5 (1.4) | 0.88 | | Ethnicity (%) | | | | 0.82 | | Swedish | 101 (94.4) | 58 (93.5) | 35 (92.1) | | | Not Swedish | 6 (5.6) | 4 (6.5) | 3 (7.9) | | | Cervical dilatation (cm) (%) | | | | 0.51 | | ≤5 | 69 (64.4) | 39 (62.9) | 28 (73.7) | | | >5 | 38 (35.5) | 23 (37.1) | 10 (23.6) | | | Presenting fetal part (%) | | | | | | Above the ischial spines (%) | 106 (99.1) | 59 (95.2) | 38 (100) | | | Below the ischial spines (%) | 1 (0.9) | 3 (4.8) | 0 | |
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