Table 1. Demographics of the caesarean section (CS) group and the laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy group (LAVH).
| CS-group | LAVH-group | ||||||
| Variable | N | mean | SD | N | mean | SD | P |
| Age | 23 | 29.3 | 3.5 | 27 | 50.7 | 15.4 | <0.001 |
| Length (cm) | 23 | 164.8 | 6.6 | 27 | 163.1 | 5.3 | 0.33 |
| Weight (kg) | 23 | 71.32 | 21.5 | 27 | 78.6 | 18.6 | 0.21 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 23 | 26.1 | 7.3 | 27 | 29.6 | 7.1 | 0.10 |
| Weight before CS (kg) | 23 | 84.6 | 19.3 | ||||
| BMI before CS (kg/m2) | 23 | 31.0 | 6.4 | ||||
| Gestational age (weeks days) | 23 | 39.0 | 0.6 | ||||
| Fetal birth weight (g) | 23 | 3590.9 | 472.2 | ||||
| Fetal birth length (cm) | 23 | 49.4 | 2.8 | ||||
| Fetal birth weight percentile | 23 | 60.9 | 30.8 | ||||
| Smoking | 5 | 6 | 0.79 | ||||
| Diabetes | 0 | 3 | 0.09 | ||||
| Hypertension | 3 | 9 | 0.08 | ||||
| Nulliparous | 4 | ||||||
| Reason for CS | |||||||
| Breech presentation | 7 | ||||||
| Repeat CS | 16 | ||||||
| Placenta praevia | 1 | ||||||
Weight and BMI are pre-pregnancy for the CS-group. Numeric data are presented as mean with standard deviation (SD). P-values are calculated with an independent sample T-test for numeric data, and with a Fisher's exact test for dichotomous data.