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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2015 Apr;19(4):819–827. doi: 10.1007/s10995-014-1579-8

Table 6.

Models of prenatal care and birth outcomes

Healthy start vs. Traditional
OR (95% CI) aOR (95% CI)*
Low birthweight 1.80 (0.70, 4.64) 1.23 (0.43, 3.52)
Preterm birth 2.23 (0.87, 5.69) 2.87 (0.96, 8.62)
Small-for-gestational-age 1.96 (0.78, 4.93) 1.27 (0.44, 3.61)
Neonatal intensive care admission 1.69 (0.63, 4.60) 1.55 (0.51, 4.78)
Gestational diabetes 1.03 (0.38, 2.78) 1.95 (0.60, 6.32)
Pregnancy-induced hypertension 1.09 (0.56, 1.27) 0.90 (0.43, 1.92)
anemia 0.56 (0.25, 1.27) 0.28 (0.11, 0.70)
c-section 0.84 (0.50, 1.43) 0.92 (0.52, 1.67)
beta p adjusted beta* p
birthweight −88.1 0.14 −17.7 0.78
gestational age −2.19 0.08 −2.29 0.09
birth length −0.52 0.10 −0.19 0.57
head circumference −0.32 0.13 −0.03 0.91
*

adjusted for age, partnership, race, smoking, income, body mass index, and current employment