Table 1.

Patients characteristics^*

	Intervention group	Control group	p value
Age (mean)	28.8 ± 4.7	27.6 ± 4.4	0.356
Weight (kg)	88 ± 7.6	86 ± 3.7	0.638
Height (cm)	161 ± 11.6	160 ± 9.3	0.812
Apgar Score at 1 min	8.1 ± 0.9	8.3 ± 0.7	0.692
Apgar Score at 5 min	9.7 ± 0.3	9.6 ± 0.2	0.711
Duration of surgery (min)	43 ± 9.8	48 ± 8.3	0.477
Estimated blood loss	480 ± 90	460 ± 80	0.155

^*Values are expressed as mean ± standard deviation