Table 4. Adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes among women with prior caesarean section who had and did not have uterine rupture in the current pregnancy.
Outcomes | Overall |
No uterine rupture |
Uterine rupture |
Crude OR | (95% CI) | AOR | (95% CI) | |||
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n | % | n | % | n | % | |||||
Number of deliveries | 37,366 | 37,196 | 170 | |||||||
Number of live births | 36,697 | 36,611 | 86 | |||||||
Adverse maternal outcomes | ||||||||||
Maternal near miss | 339 | 0.9 | 286 | 0.8 | 53 | 31.2 | 53.37 | (34.70–82.09)*** | 45.25 | (26.45–77.42)*** |
Maternal mortality | 43 | 0.1 | 38 | 0.1 | 5 | 2.9 | 18.67 | (4.15–83.91)*** | 4.45 | (1.15–17.26)*** |
Severe maternal outcomes | 382 | 1.0 | 324 | 0.9 | 58 | 34.1 | 51.81 | (33.23–80.78)*** | 40.22 | (24.01–67.36)*** |
Perinatal adverse outcomes | ||||||||||
Fresh stillbirth | 437 | 1.2 | 364 | 1.0 | 73 | 42.9 | 91.18 | (57.80–143.82) *** | 59.56 | (38.29–92.64)*** |
IHENM§ | 355 | 1.0 | 344 | 0.9 | 11 | 12.9 | 7.18 | (3.43–15.04)*** | 8.95 | (3.72–21.52)*** |
Perinatal death§ | 792 | 2.1 | 708 | 1.9 | 84 | 49.4 | 54.20 | (35.03–83.86)*** | 33.34 | (21.59–51.51)*** |
ADR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; IHENM, intra-hospital early neonatal mortality; OR, odds ratio.
Maternal death: death up to the 8th postpartum day or before hospital discharge; Severe maternal outcomes: maternal near miss and/or death; IHENM: death within 7 days after birth or before hospital discharge; Perinatal death: fresh stillbirth and intra-hospital early neonatal mortality.
Percentages in each group except IHENM: numbers of adverse outcomes divided by total deliveries in each group; Percentages in IHENM: numbers of IHENM divided by total livebirths in each group.
Women without uterine rupture served as a comparison group in the regression models. Crude odds ratios were adjusted for survey design. Multilevel logistic regression models with random effects of health facility were adjusted for maternal age, marital status, education, parity, medical conditions during pregnancy, facility capacity, and country Human Development Index level.
§Additionally adjusted for gestational age.
*p < 0.05 **p < 0.01 ***p < 0.001.