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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Perinatol. 2014 Aug 7;35(1):23–28. doi: 10.1038/jp.2014.139

Table 1.

Characteristics of women with singleton pregnancies and their newborns by labor and delivery outcomes

Total (n=2798) Prolonged stage 1 (n=126) Prolonged stage 2 (n=93) Primary cesarean delivery (n=52) Indicated instrumental delivery (n=211)
%
Race
 White 48.0 50.1 75.3 55.8 63.0
 Black 44.9 43.4 18.3 38.5 32.7
 Puerto Rican 7.1 6.5 6.5 5.8 4.2
Maternal age, years
 <20 24.0 36.6 34.6 15.4 27.5
 20–29 60.5 47.8 57.2 67.3 59.7
 ≥30 15.5 15.6 8.2 17.3 12.8
Prepregnancy BMI, kg/m2
 <18.5 10.6 10.8 13.8 10.8 11.1
 18.5–24.9 71.6 72.3 78.3 69.2 74.5
 25–29.9 13.7 14.6 5.6 15.8 12.5
 ≥30 4.0 2.2 2.4 4.2 2.0
Nulliparous 33.9 65.7 86.7 51.9 54.0
Married 80.4 81.7 82.6 82.7 80.6
Smoking at study entry 47.2 44.2 45.6 42.3 49.3
Trimester at study enrollment
 First (<14 weeks) 27.3 28.3 35.9 28.8 33.2
 Second (14–26 weeks) 72.7 71.7 64.1 71.1 66.8
Latitude of study site
 41–45 degrees North 47.8 42.0 73.6 50.0 62.1
 38–40 degrees North 43.7 50.6 23.6 48.1 34.6
 29–35 degrees North 8.4 7.5 2.8 1.9 3.3
Serum 25(OH)D, nmol/L 50.3 ± 27.8 52.5 ± 26.4 59.6 ± 35.8 47.5 ± 22.1 51.6 ± 27.6
Male infant 50.5 56.1 55.6 55.8 57.3
Gestational age at delivera 38.5 ± 3.0 38.7 ± 2.9 39.0 ± 2.9 38.7 ± 2.1 38.6 ± 3.0
Infant birth weight, ga 3091 ± 528 3083 ± 594 3212 ± 471 3261 ± 472 3103 ± 528

Note: All data based on combined results from 5 imputed datasets.

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; 25(OH)D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D.

a

Data presented as mean ± SD.