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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Reprod Immunol. 2010 Oct 20;87(1-2):82–89. doi: 10.1016/j.jri.2010.06.158

Table 1.

Race/Ethnic specific maternal characteristics of POUCH subcohort women with maternal DNA and vaginal smears collected

Maternal Characteristics Non-Hispanic White
N=560
African American
N=447
N (%)
Unweighted
(%)
weighted
N (%)
Unweighted
(%)
weighted
Maternal Age (years)
  <20 53 (10) (9) 123 (28) (28)
  20–30 309 (55) (57) 265 (59) (60)
  >30 198 (35) (34) 59 (13) (13)
Education Level (years)
  ≤ 12 223 (40) (38) 306 (68) (69)
  > 12 337 (60) (62) 141 (32) (31)
Medicaid Insureda
  No 351 (63) (64) 72 (16) (16)
  Yes 208 (37) (36) 375 (84) (84)
Primiparousa
  No 333 (60) (61) 261 (58) (58)
  Yes 226 (40) (39) 186 (42) (42)
Gram Stain Results
  BV Negative (Score 0–3) 474 (85) (85) 305 (68) (68)
  BV Intermediate (Score 4–6) 43 (8) (8) 53 (12) (12)
  BV Positive (Score ≥ 7) 43 (8) (7) 89 (20) (20)
Pregnancy Outcome
  Term Delivery 411 (73) (91) 366 (82) (86)
  Preterm Delivery 149 (27) (9) 81 (18) (14)
TNF-α -238
  GG 506 (90) (90) 414 (93) (93)
  GA 53 (10) (10) 31 (7) (7)
  AA 1 (<1) (<1) 2 (<1) (<1)
TNF-α -308
  GG 382 (68) (66) 338 (76) (75)
  GA 167 (30) (32) 101 (22) (23)
  AA 11 (2) (2) 8 (2) (2)
IL-1β +3954b
  CC 337 (60) (60) 334 (75) (74)
  CT 189 (34) (34) 98 (22) (23)
  TT 32 (6) (6) 15 (3) (3)

Percentages are presented both unweighted and weighted for the cohort and subcohort sampling scheme.

a

Missing data for 1 non-Hispanic white women.

b

Two non-Hispanic white woman are missing IL-1β genotype