Research Article
Heavy Metal Levels in Adolescent and Maternal Blood: Association with Risk of Hypospadias
Table 1
Demographic profile of mothers and their children.
| | Characteristics | Cases () | Controls () | value |
| | Maternal age at delivery | | | | | ≥30 years | 25 (50%) | 25 (50%) | 1.00 | | 30 years | 25 (50%) | 25 (50%) | | Maternal h/o environmental/occupational exposure | | | | | Yes | 31 (63.3%) | 6 (13.3%) | 0.07 | | No | 19 (36.6%) | 44 (86.6%) | | Dietary habits | | | | | Nonvegetarian | 36 (73.3%) | 23 (46.6%) | 0.18 | | Vegetarian | 14 (26.6%) | 27 (53.3%) | | Child birth weight (in gm) | | | | | <2500 | 28 (56.6%) | 3 (6.6%) | 0.02* | | Normal (≥2500) | 22 (43.3%) | 47 (93.3%) |
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Significant at the level.
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