Research Article

Increasing Number and Proportion of Adverse Obstetrical Outcomes among Women Living with HIV in the Ottawa Area: A 20-Year Clinical Case Series

Table 1

Obstetrical outcomes among 127 births from women living with HIV from 1990 to 2010.

Variables (%)

Total deliveries
 Healthy100 (78.74%)
 Adverse obstetrical outcome27 (21.26%)
  Preterm (<37 weeks) 22 (17.32%)
  Low birth weight (<2500 g) 9 (7.09%)
  Small for gestational age (<10th percentile)12 (9.45%)
  Stillbirth4 (3.15%)

Adverse obstetrical outcome is a composite outcome and events are not mutually exclusive. Participants with ≥1 event are counted as “yes.”.