Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics: DFM and Cross-sectional populations
| DFM* N = 4 253 |
Cross-sectional* N = 1 431 |
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| Characteristics |
Pre-intervention n = 1 215 n (%)† |
Post-intervention n = 3 038 n (%)† |
P‡ |
Pre-intervention n = 692 n (%)† |
Post-intervention n = 739 n (%)† |
P‡ |
| Age, y mean (SD) | 29.6 (4.9) | 29.7 (5.2) | 0.625 | 30.2 (4.9) | 30.1 (5.1) | 0.849 |
| <20 | 23 (1.9) | 59 (2.0) | 9 (1.3) | 10 (1.4) | ||
| 20-24 | 182 (15.1) | 454 (15.1) | 70 (10.3) | 101 (13.7) | ||
| 25-29 | 388 (32.3) | 933 (31.1) | 231 (34.0) | 208 (28.1) | ||
| 30-34 | 413 (34.4) | 1 031 (34.3) | 237 (34.9) | 273 (36.9) | ||
| 35+ | 196 (16.3) | 527 (17.5) | 133 (19.6) | 147 (19.9) | ||
| Parity | ||||||
| Para 0 | 559 (51.1) | 1 414 (52.4) | 0.490 | 287 (43.1) | 300 (41.4) | 0.197 |
| Para 1 | 372 (34.0) | 878 (32.5) | 221 (33.2) | 283 (39.0) | ||
| Para 2+ | 163 (14.9) | 409 (15.2) | 158 (23.7) | 142 (19.5) | ||
| BMI, kg/m2 | 24.7 (5.1) | 24.5 (5.0) | 0.547 | 24.4 (4.4) | 23.6 (4.2) | <0.001 |
| <20 | 143 (13.3) | 383 (14.2) | 74 (11.0) | 113 (15.6) | ||
| 20-24 | 547 (50.8) | 1325 (49.0) | 378 (56.2) | 412 (56.9) | ||
| 25-29 | 244 (22.7) | 638 (23.6) | 147 (21.8) | 137 (18.9) | ||
| 30+ | 91 (8.5) | 249 (9.2) | 74 (11.0) | 21 (8.6) | ||
| Smoking habits | ||||||
| Smoking | 104 (8.8) | 259 (8.9) | 0.924 | 50 (7.4) | 48 (6.4) | 0.483 |
| Country of origin | ||||||
| Non-Western | 178 (14.7) | 406 (13.4) | 0.271 | 39 (5.7) | 29 (3.6) | 0.064 |
* Data are reported as n(%) unless otherwise noted.
† Denominators vary due to missing values
‡ Chi square tests for the difference between proportions within women with DFM and the cross-sectional population respectively