Evaluation of the Acceleration and Deceleration Phase-Rectified Slope to Detect and Improve IUGR Clinical Management

Table 1

Maternal and perinatal characteristics.

	Healthy^1			IUGR
	<34th week	34th–37th weeks	>37th week	<34th week	34th–37th weeks	>37th week
Demographic data
Patients ()	22	21	16	24	21	16
Maternal age (year)^2	32,4 ± 5,3	32,4 ± 5,8	32,2 ± 5,6	29,7 ± 6,2	28,4 ± 5,7	28,1 ± 5,8
Week at 1st cCTG recording^2	32,3 ± 1,7	35,5 ± 1,5	39,1 ± 2,1	32,3 ± 2,8	32,6 ± 2,2	33,1 ± 3,2
Duration of cCTG recording (sec)^2	2584 ± 623	2530 ± 641	2450 ± 724	3418 ± 1033	3312 ± 1084	3243 ± 1125
Week of delivery^2	39,6 ± 1,1	39,6 ± 1,3	39,7 ± 1,2	32,7 ± 1,9	36,4 ± 1,9	38,9 ± 2,0
Vaginal delivery (%)	57,9	58,2	59,2	2,3	7,4	4,3
Caesarean section (%)	42,1	42,8	40,8	97,7	92,6	95,7
Neonatal data
Fetal pH at birth^2	7,32 ± 0,1	7,32 ± 0,07	7,32 ± 0,09	7,32 ± 0,06	7,32 ± 0,07	7,32 ± 0,08
Apgar <7 at 5 min (%)	0	0	0	7.2	6.3	0
Female (%)	50	47,6	50	54,1	52,4	43,8
Birth weight (g)^2	3259 ± 482	3305 ± 518	3287 ± 518	1140,1 ± 345	1479 ± 452	1856 ± 608

Healthy fetuses delivered all after 37 weeks of gestation.
²Values above are expressed as mean value ± standard deviation.