Table 1.

At risk pregnancies, risk recognition, and ethnic group. Values are numbers (percentages) of couples

Ethnic group	First pregnancy			All pregnancies
	Total No	No (%) offered prenatal diagnosis		Total No	No (%) offered prenatal diagnosis
Cypriot*	42	34 (81)		130	119 (92)
Indian	26	13 (50)		73	46 (63)
Other†	10	4 (40)		28	17 (61)
Pakistani*	52	15 (29)		149	76 (51)
Bangladeshi	8	2 (25)		20	7 (35)
Total	138	68 (49)		400	268 (67)

^*Difference between proportion of Cypriot and Pakistani couples whose risk was detected in first pregnancy is highly significant, χ²=62.9, P<0.0001). 

^†Italian or other Mediterranean, Chinese or other South East Asian, African-Caribbean, Middle Eastern.