Clinical Study
Mode of Delivery in Drug-Dependent Pregnant Women: A Case Control Study
Table 2
Factors that influenced the mode of delivery in the study population.
| | | Vaginal delivery
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| | Maternal characteristics | | | | | | Maternal age (years) | 28.75 (5.08) | 29.88 (5.22) | | 0.038 | | Body mass index (Kg/m2) | 22.45 (4.09) | 23.86 (4.45) | | 0.055 | | Ethnicity | | | 0.919 (0.244–3.456) | 0.901 | | Caucasian | 346 (97.5) | 106 (97.2) | | | | Non-Caucasian | 9 (2.5) | 3 (2.8) | | | | Nulliparity | 185 (52.1) | 71 (65.1) | 1.717 (1.100–2.681) | 0.017 | | Previous cesarean section | 18 (5.1) | 26 (23.9) | 5.865 (3.070–11.203) | <0.001 | | Previous vaginal delivery | 153 (43.1) | 12 (11.0) | 0.163 (0.087–0.301) | <0.001 | | Drug dependence | 193 (54.5) | 43 (39.1) | 0.547 (0.353–0.847) | 0.006 | | Pregnancy complications | | | | | | Placental abnormalities | 0 | 5 (4.6) | 0.227 (0.191–0.260) | 0.001 | | Hypertensive complications | 10 (2.8) | 2 (1.8) | 0.645 (0.139–2.989) | 0.572 | | Fetal growth restriction | 44 (12.4) | 10 (12.2) | 0.714 (0.397–1.471) | 0.359 | | Labor characteristics | | | | | | Gestational age (weeks) | 38.43 (1.41) | 38.48 (1.47) | | 0.581 | | Fetal presentation | | | 30.395 (11.491–80.400) | <0.001 | | Cephalic | 350 (98.6) | 76 (69.7) | | | | Noncephalic | 5 (1.4) | 33 (30.3) | | | | Induction of labor | 95 (27.0) | 23 (21.1) | 0.724 (0.432–1.213) | 0.218 |
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Values are mean (standard deviation) for continuous variables or (%) for categorical variables.
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