Table 1.
Prepregnancy characteristics according to time from surgery to conception.
| Time period | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | <6 months (n = 22) | 7–12 months (n = 47) | 13–18 months (n = 29) | 19–24 months (n = 14) | >24 months (n = 46) | P value |
| Age | 32 ± 6.03 | 31.74 ± 5.86* | 33.48 ± 5.51 | 29.28 ± 5.19 | 31.76 ± 6.09 | .639 |
| Booking BMI (kg/m2) | 33.81 ± 6.53 | 29.71 ± 5.28 | 29.01 ± 5.36 | 25.07 ± 4.49 | 28.63 ± 5.42 | .001 |
| Booking weight (kg) | 86.91 ± 14.96 | 76.36 ± 15.01 | 75.57 ± 15.59 | 65.57 ± 16.50 | 72.11 ± 13.19 | .001 |
| Type of surgery† | .031‡ | |||||
| Sleeve gastrectomy | 15 (71.4) | 36 (76.6) | 28 (96.5) | 11 (78.6) | 38 (82.6) | |
| Roux-en-Y gastric bypass | 3 (14.3) | 7 (14.9) | 1 (3.5) | 2 (14.3) | 3 (6.5) | |
| Gastric banding | 1 (4.8) | 4 (8.5) | 0 | 1 (7.1) | 5 (10.9) | |
| Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and gastroenterostomy | 2 (9.5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Data presented as mean ± SD or frequencies (percentages).
BMI = body mass index.
*
1 patient’s data missing.
†1 patient’s data missing in group 1.
‡Calculated by chi-square test.