Table 1.
Characteristics of intrapartum and postpartum women with and without sickle cell disease
| SCD (N = 1,526) |
No SCD, CC+a (N = 21,982) |
No SCD, CC–b (N = 311,840) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | p value† | N | % | p value† | |
| Age at delivery | ||||||||
| 15–24 | 955 | 62.6 | 7,206 | 32.8 | <0.001 | 188,676 | 60.5 | 0.04 |
| 25–34 | 507 | 33.2 | 10,887 | 49.5 | 105,821 | 33.9 | ||
| 35–44 | 64 | 4.2 | 3,889 | 17.7 | 17,343 | 5.6 | ||
| Plurality | ||||||||
| Singleton | 1,474 | 96.6 | 21,426 | 97.5 | 0.04 | 304,678 | 98.2 | <0.001 |
| Multiple birth | 52 | 3.4 | 556 | 2.5 | 5,669 | 1.8 | ||
| Tobacco usec | 75 | 4.9 | 1,102 | 5.0 | 0.86 | 10,938 | 3.5 | 0.003 |
| Delivery length of stay (mean days, SD) | 4.7 (6.1) | 4.1 (5.2) | 0.001 | 2.9 (3.0) | <0.0001 | |||
SCD sickle cell disease, CC chronic conditions (diabetes, pulmonary hypertension, essential hypertension, congenital heart defects, cardiomyopathy, lupus, viral hepatitis, epilepsy and hypothyroidism)
†
p value for Chi square test or t test comparing the distribution of variable in SCD group versus distribution in non-SCD group
a
“CC+” denotes women without SCD who had report of a chronic condition any time prior to delivery
b
”CC—” denotes women without report of SCD or a chronic condition
c
Report of tobacco use ≤40 weeks prior to delivery admission