Can Preterm Labour Be Predicted in Low Risk Pregnancies? Role of Clinical, Sonographic, and Biochemical Markers

Table 3

Showing number of patients with more than 90th percentile of various predictive markers in both the groups.

	Preterm	Term	value	Odds ratio
	()	()		(95% CI)
Serum IL-6 (>90th percentile)	14	16	0.42	0.662 (0.3053 to 1.4354)
Serum ferritin (>90th percentile)	10	20	0.05	0.464 (0.2089 to 1.0333)
Serum G-CSF (>90th percentile)	16	21	0.36	0.9205 (0.4505 to 1.8807)
Serum ALP (>90th percentile)	20	7	0.003	3.0315 (1.1812 to 7.7803)
Serum alpha-fetoprotein (>90th percentile)	13	14	0.546	0.7016 (0.316 to 1.5576)
Cervicovaginal IL-6 (>90th percentile)	17	12	0.312	1.487 (0.6818 to 3.2454)
Cervicovaginal IGFBP (positive)	3	6	1.0	1.2 (0.2624 to 5.4874)