Table 3.
Outcomes for women with and without heart disease
| Lost to follow-up (n) | 0/3448 |
2/58 |
P values |
|---|---|---|---|
| No heart disease (n=3448) | Heart disease (n=56) | ||
|
| |||
| Place of delivery (n=3438, 56) | Prevalence/100 (95% CI) | Prevalence/100 (95% CI) | 0.006 |
| Home | 13.9 (12.6–14.9) | 23.2 (14.1–35.8) | |
| Health centre (II, III, IV) | 59.9 (57.8–61.1) | 50.0 (37.3–62.7) | |
| District hospital | 6.4 (5.2–6.8) | 3.6 (1.0–12.1) | |
| Regional referral hospital | 12.9 (11.6–13.8) | 2.4 (11.6–34.4) | |
| National referral hospital | 0.4 (0.1–0.5) | 1.8 (0.5–9.6) | |
| Traditional birth attendant | 6.5 (5.6–7.2) | 0 | |
| Delivery data | |||
| Pregnancy duration (median, IQR) | 38.2 (38–39) | 39.0 (36–40) | 0.65 |
| Method of delivery | 0.016 | ||
| Vaginal, n(%) | 96.5 (95.5–96.8) | 89.3 (78.5–95.0) | |
| Caesarean section, n (%) | 3.5 (3.0–4.2) | 10.7 (5.0–21.5) | |
| Cardiovascular complications | |||
| Any | 0 | 51.8 (39.0–64.3) | |
| Heart failure | 0 | 33.9 (22.9–47.0) | |
| Cardiac medication initiation | 0 | 48.2 (35.7–60.1) | |
| Arrhythmia | 0 | 3.6 (1.0–12.1) | |
| Pulmonary hypertension | 0 | 10.7 (5.0–21.5) | |
| Hospital admission (cardiac cause) | 0 | 3.6 (1.0–12.1) | |
| Pregnancy outcome per 1000* | |||
| Maternal mortality | 2.0 (1.0–4.3) | 15.4 (2.4–97.9) | 0.044 |
| Fetal death | 38.6 (32.4–45.5) | 71.4 (19.8–172.9) | 0.124 |
| Neonatal death | 10.2 (7.3–14.2) | 42.1 (13.9–127.1) | 0.016 |
*
Adjusted for maternal age and enrolment site differences.