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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2017 Aug 25;32(1):30–39. doi: 10.1111/ppe.12402

Table 4.

Cumulative Probability of Pregnancy Loss and Hazard Ratios by Occurrence of Combinations of Signs and Symptoms Each Week Following Positive Pregnancy Test Among Women in the LIFE Study, Michigan and Texas, USA, 2005–2009

Probability of loss (95% confidence interval) Hazard Ratio (95% confidence interval)
Reference includes women with no symptoms or with spotting only Reference includes women with no symptoms
No symptoms a
 Week 1 0.2 (0.1, 0.4) 1.0 (Reference) 1.0 (Reference)
 Week 2 0.3 (0.2, 0.4) 1.0 (Reference) 1.0 (Reference)
 Week 3 0.2 (0.1, 0.3) 1.0 (Reference) 1.0 (Reference)
 Week 4 0.3 (0.2, 0.5) 1.0 (Reference) 1.0 (Reference)
 Week 5 0.2 (0.1, 0.3) 1.0 (Reference) 1.0 (Reference)
Cramping only
 Week 1 0.2 (0.0, 0.3) 0.5 (0.1, 2.0) 0.5 (0.1, 2.2)
 Week 2 0.2 (0.1, 0.3) 0.6 (0.2, 1.3) 0.6 (0.3, 1.4)
 Week 3 0.2 (0.0, 0.3) 0.4 (0.1, 1.7) 0.6 (0.2, 2.2)
 Week 4 0.2 (0.0, 0.4) 1.0 (0.4, 2.7) 0.6 (0.1, 2.8)
 Week 5 0.3 (0.0, 0.5) 0.9 (0.2, 3.5) 1.0 (0.2, 4.0)
Nausea/vomiting only
 Week 1 0.2 (0.0, 0.3) 0.6 (0.2, 1.7) 0.7 (0.2, 1.9)
 Week 2 0.1 (0.1, 0.2) 0.4 (0.2, 0.9) 0.5 (0.2, 1.1)
 Week 3 0.2 (0.1, 0.2) 0.6 (0.4, 1.0) 0.7 (0.4, 1.1)
 Week 4 0.1 (0.0, 0.2) 0.4 (0.2, 0.7) 0.4 (0.2, 0.8)
 Week 5 0.1 (0.0, 0.2) 0.4 (0.2, 0.9) 0.4 (0.2, 0.9)
Nausea/vomiting + cramping
 Week 1 0.2 (0.1, 0.3) 0.9 (0.6, 1.6) 0.9 (0.5, 1.5)
 Week 2 0.1 (0.1, 0.2) 0.5 (0.2, 0.9) 0.5 (0.3, 1.0)
 Week 3 0.1 (0.0, 0.1) 0.2 (0.1, 0.6) 0.3 (0.1, 0.7)
 Week 4 0.1 (0.0, 0.1) 0.3 (0.1, 0.6) 0.3 (0.1, 0.7)
 Week 5 0.1 (0.0, 0.1) 0.2 (0.1, 0.5) 0.2 (0.1, 0.6)
Nausea/vomiting + cramping + bleeding
 Week 1 0.7 (0.5, 0.9) 5.2 (2.6, 10.5) 4.5 (2.4, 8.5)
 Week 2 0.3 (0.1, 0.5) 1.6 (0.7, 3.8) 1.4 (0.6, 3.1)
 Week 3 0.1 (0.0, 0.2) 0.5 (0.1, 2.2) 0.4 (0.1, 1.4)
 Week 4 0.1 (0.0, 0.3) 0.5 (0.2, 1.8) 0.5 (0.2, 1.5)
 Week 5 0.1 (0.0, 0.1) 0.0 (0.0, 229) 0.2 (0.1, 1.0)
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No symptoms includes women without any cramping, bleeding, nausea and/or vomiting