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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Periodontol. 2009 Nov;80(11):1731–1741. doi: 10.1902/jop.2009.090236

Table 3.

Number (%) of women with a live preterm birth, by serum biomarker detection at baseline (13 – 17 weeks gestation).

Biomarker Detectable: Preterm Delivery/Total (%) Biomarker Undetectable: Preterm Delivery/Total (%) P value
IL-1β 7/49 (14.3) 70/718 (9.8) 0.32
IL-6 3/52 (5.8) 74/715 (10.4) 0.47
IL-8 3/23 (13.0) 74/744 (10.0) 0.50
TNF-α 5/57 (8.8) 72/710 (10.1) 1.00

From Fisher’s exact test

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