Research Article
Maternal Plasma Metabolomic Profiles in Spontaneous Preterm Birth: Preliminary Results
Table 1
Clinical characteristic of the patients.
| | Group I () | Group Ia () | Group II () | Group III () |
| | Maternal age (mean ± SD) | 28.28 ± 6.32 | 28.49 ± 6.483 | 28.82 ± 5.195 | 27.76 ± 3.972 | | Number of pregnancies (mean ± SD) | 2.105 ± 1.484 | 2.054 ± 1.290 | 1.694 ± 0.962 | 1.640 ± 0.757 | | Gestational age at collecting of samples in weeks (mean ± SD) | 30.09 ± 3.419 | 30.7 ± 3.534 | 31.73 ± 3.712 | 39.60 ± 1.155 | | Gestational age at birth in weeks (mean ± SD) | 31.75 ± 3.361 | 30.89 ± 3.462 | 39.16 ± 1.419 | 39.68 ± 1.069 | | Newborn sex (female : male) | 25 : 32 | 16 : 21 | 29 : 20 | 10 : 15 | | BMI at the beginning of pregnancy (mean ± SD) | 21.73 ± 3.61 | 21.80 ± 3.85 | 22.56 ± 4.55 | 21.84 ± 3.03 | | Present BMI (mean ± SD) | 25.05 ± 4.52 | 25.26 ± 5.09 | 26.21 ± 4.26 | 27.63 ± 3.79 |
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