Table 4.
Maternal characteristics of women by hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) status among women who gave birth from 2004 to 2005 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA
| HDP (n=1037) |
No HDP (n=21 004) |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | p Value | |
| Maternal age (years) | |||
| <20 | 117 (11.3) | 2549 (12.1) | 0.50 |
| 20–24 | 309 (29.8) | 6322 (30.1) | |
| 25–29 | 266 (25.7) | 5588 (26.6) | |
| 30–34 | 212 (20.4) | 4257 (20.3) | |
| 35–39 | 108 (10.4) | 1852 (8.8) | |
| ≥40 | 25 (2.4) | 435 (2.1) | |
| Race | |||
| Non-Hispanic White | 536 (51.7) | 10 787 (51.4) | <0.01 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 404 (39.0) | 7233 (34.4) | |
| Others | 97 (9.4) | 2984 (14.2) | |
| Maternal education | |||
| <High school | 155 (15.2) | 3676 (17.7) | 0.06 |
| High school or equivalent | 341 (33.4) | 7085 (34.1) | |
| >High school | 526 (51.5) | 10 043 (48.3) | |
| Marital status | |||
| Married | 611 (59.0) | 11 986 (57.1) | 0.24 |
| Not married | 426 (41.1) | 9017 (42.9) | |
| Smoked during pregnancy | |||
| No | 954 (93.4) | 18 919 (91.6) | 0.11 |
| Yes, and <10 cigarettes/day | 28 (2.7) | 781 (3.8) | |
| Yes, and ≥10 cigarettes/day | 39 (3.8) | 947 (4.6) | |
| Season of conception | |||
| Warm | 509 (49.1) | 10 032 (47.8) | 0.41 |
| Cool | 528 (50.9) | 10 972 (52.2) | |
| Year of conception | |||
| 2003 | 306 (29.5) | 7593 (36.2) | <0.01 |
| 2004 | 563 (54.3) | 10 499 (50.0) | |
| 2005 | 168 (16.2) | 2912 (13.9) | |
| Prenatal care began | |||
| No care | 8 (1.0) | 230 (1.6) | 0.04 |
| First trimester | 602 (77.2) | 10 792 (73.8) | |
| Second trimester | 149 (19.1) | 2963 (20.3) | |
| Third trimester | 21 (2.7) | 641 (4.4) | |
| Tract median household income | |||
| Low | 340 (32.8) | 6899 (32.9) | 0.07 |
| Moderate | 377 (36.4) | 6996 (33.3) | |
| High | 320 (30.9) | 7109 (33.9) |