Occurrence of Fetal Macrosomia Rate and Its Maternal and Neonatal Complications: A 5-Year Cohort Study

Table 3

Maternal and neonatal complications due to macrosomia (data presented as number (𝑛) and percentage (%)).

Variables	Macrosomia		Normal birth weight
	𝑛	%	𝑛	%	𝑃
Uterine atony (𝑛=211)	198	11	13	0.7	0.0001
Cervix/vaginal laceration (𝑛=92)	88	4.9	4	0.2	0.0001*
Uterine rapture (𝑛=10)	8	0.4	2	0.1	0.0001*
Shoulder dystocia (𝑛=192)	183	11	9	0.5	0.0001
Brachial fracture (𝑛=6)	6	0.3	0	0.0	0.0001*
Clavicle fracture (𝑛=14)	12	0.6	2	0.1	0.0001*
Brachial plexus injury (𝑛=37)	35	1.9	2	0.1	0.0001*
First-minute Apgar < 6 (𝑛=193)	180	10	13	0.7	0.0001

𝑃<0.05 is significant using chi-square test, *𝑃<0.05 is significant using Fisher’s exact test.