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. 2016 Jun 3;19(17):3210–3215. doi: 10.1017/S1368980016001191

Table 1.

General characteristics of the study population (n 100): pregnant women attending a tertiary hospital in urban South India

All Hb1<110 g/l Hb1 ≥120 g/l
Mean sd Mean sd Mean sd P value*
Age (years) 23·9 3·2 23·3 2·9 24·4 3·3 0·076
Height (cm) 155·6 5·4 156·0 5·3 155·3 5·6 0·555
Weight (kg) 51·5 8·9 49·8 9·1 52·6 8·6 0·118
Final gestational age (weeks) 38·6 1·4 38·7 1·4 38·5 1·4 0·361
Birth weight (g) 2771 449 2836 482 2728 424 0·240
Hb1 (g/l) 119 18 98 7 133 6 <0·001
Total supplemental Fe intake (mg) 7329 736 7392 674 7288 777 0·504
LBW (n) 33 10 23 0·165
% 33 25 38

Hb1, Hb in trimester 1; LBW, low birth weight.

*

Calculated by the independent-sample t test for continuous data and by the χ 2 test for categorical data. P<0·05 was considered to be statistically significant.