Prevalence of Low Birth Weight before and after Policy Change to IPTp-SP in Two Selected Hospitals in Southern Nigeria: Eleven-Year Retrospective Analyses

Table 1

Demographic and obstetric characteristics of mother-baby pairs from delivery registers (2000–2010).

Variables	Total
Maternal age group (90.1)
<18 years	2893 (28.5)
18–34 years	6353 (62.7)
>34 years	892 (8.8)
Gravidity (93.2)
Primigravidae	3447 (32.9)
Multigravidae	7032 (67.1)
Duration of pregnancy (44.1)
Term (≥37 weeks <42 weeks)	4751 (95.7)
Preterm (<37 weeks)	125 (2.5)
Postterm (≥42 weeks)	87 (1.8)
Delivery method (96.5)
Vaginal delivery	8932 (82.3)
Caesarean section (CS)	1918 (17.7)
Baby sex (96.0)
Female	5235 (48.5)
Male	5559 (51.5)
Baby condition at birth (100)
Alive	11050 (98.2)
Dead/stillborn	128 (1.1)
Intrauterine fetal death (IUFD)	70 (0.6)

represents valid cases available, and the figure in a bracket is the percentage of valid cases available for analyses per variable.