Risk of Selected Fetal Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes at Advanced Maternal Age: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Debre Markos Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 3

Bivariate and multivariable analysis of maternal age and other variables associated with selected fetal adverse outcomes in Debre Markos referral hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2019 (N_E = 303 and N_Ne = 604).

	Stillbirth^3a		Crude RR (95% C.I.)	Adjusted RR (95% C.I.)
	No	Yes
Maternal age
Nonexposed group	585	19	1	1
AMA group	263	40	4.22 (2.53–6.75)	3.14 (1.30–7.00)
	LBW
	No	Yes
Nonexposed group	529	75	1
AMA group	253	50	1.33 (0.96–1.83)
	PTB^3b
	No	Yes
Nonexposed group	553	51	1	1
AMA group	243	60	2.36 (1.68–3.23)	2.66 (1.81–3.77)

^3aAdjusted for: Place of residence, maternal occupational status, maternal educational status, gravidity, parity, ANC follow-up, previous adverse pregnancy outcome(s), wealth quintile, health insurance. Hosmer-Lemeshow Goodness-of-fit -value = 0.252. ^3bAdjusted for: number of alive child(ren), wealth quintile, husband occupational status, gravidity, husband educational status, maternal educational status, parity, ANC follow-up, previous adverse pregnancy outcomes, health insurance, place of residence. CI, Confidence Interval; RR, Risk Ratio. Hosmer-Lemeshow Goodness-of-fit, -value = 0.974. -value <0.05, -value <0.001 , incidence in the nonexposed group, OR- Odds ratio.