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. 2015 Dec 29;9(12):e0004274. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004274

Table 2. Risk of negative pregnancy outcomes and malformations for fetuses exposed to OCV (primary analysis) and fetuses not exposed but born to vaccinated women (bias-indicator analysis).

Boffa prefecture, Guinea, 2013.

Primary and secondary analyses Bias-indicator analysis
Fetus exposed (n = 1312) Fetus non-exposed (n = 272) Unadjusted relative risk Adjusted relative risk Unadjusted relative risk Adjusted relative risk
N CCI% [95%CI] N CCI% [95%CI] uRR [95%CI] p-value aRR [95%CI] p-value uRR [95%CI] p-value aRR [95%CI] p-value
Pregnancy loss 49 3.7 [2.7–4.8] 7 2.6 [0 7–4.5] 1.45 [0.66–3.17] 0.350 1.13 a [0.54–2.38] 0.738 1.06 [0.36–3.14] 0.915 1.19 [0.47–3.00] 0.717
Miscarriage* 12 1.4 [0.6–2.2] 2 1.0 [<0 1–2.4] 1.36 [0.31–6.08] 0.689 1.29 b [0.29–5.79] 0.736 0.80 [0.16–3.91] 0.779 0.92 [0.19–4.38] 0.915
Stillbirth** 36 2.8 [1.9–3.7] 5 1.9 [0 2–3.5] 1.50 [0.59–3.79] 0.394 1.39 c [0.57–3.38] 0.464 1.32 [0.29–5.99] 0.716 1.36 [0.34–5.42] 0.658
Live birth 1263 / 265 / / / / /
Death 18 1.4 [0.7–2.1] 5 1.9 [0.2–3.5] / / / /
Illness 107 / 15 / / / / /
Malformation 7 0.6 [0.1–1.0] 3 1.2 [0.0–2.5] 0.49 [0.13–1.87] 0.296 0.50 d [0 13–1 91] 0.314 0.45 [0.11–1.86] 0.269 0.51 [0.13–2.02] 0.341

CCI: Crude Cumulative Incidence

CI: Confidence Interval

uRR/aRR: Unadjusted/adjusted Relative Risk

* Women who had been pregnant for more than 5 months on 18 April 2012 were excluded.

** Women who did not complete 5 months of pregnancy were excluded.

ⱡ According to pediatrician’s examination

a Adjusted for subprefecture, household size, antenatal care, multiple pregnancies, number of live babies delivered, number of previous stillbirths, whether they had cholera in 2012.

b Adjusted for age, level of education, household size, previous child alive or dead, whether they had cholera in 2012.

c Adjusted for profession, household size, antenatal care, multiple pregnancies, number of previous miscarriages, number of previous stillbirths, whether they had cholera in 2012.

d Adjusted for profession, radio owned by the household, consumption of coffee during the pregnancy.