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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 26.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Transl Med. 2017 Aug 30;9(405):eaan1240. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aan1240

Table 1. Participant demographics.

MA, maternal age; GA, gestational age; MAD, median absolute deviation; na, not available.

Cohort 1 (n = 72,932) Cohort 2 (n = 16,885) Cohort 1 versus cohort 2
Variable No flag Flagged P No flag Flagged P P (no flag) P (flagged)
Samples, n (% total) 72,414 (99.29%) 518 (0.71%) na 16,776 (99.35%) 109 (0.65%) na 0.383 (difference in proportions of flagged versus nonflagged, comparing cohort 1 to cohort 2)
MA (years)
 Median ± MAD 35.6 ± 4.4 36.1 ± 5.1 0.003 34.4 ± 4.4 35.7 ± 5.5 0.01 <0.0005 0.945
 Mean ± SD 34.6 ± 5.4 35.1 ± 5.8 34.4 ± 4.3 35.6 ± 4.9
 Min-Max 13.8–66.6 14.0–50.7 18.2–62.2 19.8–46.4
GA (weeks)
 Median ± MAD 12.0 ± 3.0 12.0 ± 3.0 0.83 10.0 ± 0 10.0 ± 0 0.847 <0.0005 <0.0005
 Mean ± SD 13.8 ± 4.2 13.9 ± 4.4 11.0 ± 1.9 11.2 ± 2.6
 Min-Max 10–40 10–35 10–36 10–31
Trimester (% of samples)
 First (10–13.9 weeks) 47,498 (65.60%) 331 (63.80%) 0.402 15,560 (92.80%) 97 (89.00%) 0.025 <0.0005 <0.0005
 Second (14–27.9 weeks) 23,956 (33.10%) 177 (34.20%) 1,207 (7.20%) 11 (10.10%)
 Third (28–40+ weeks) 960 (1.30%) 10 (1.90%) 9 (0.10%) 1 (0.90%)