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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2018 Mar;26(3):578–587. doi: 10.1002/oby.22079

Table 3.

Infant characteristics at birth

Lifestyle
Intervention
(n = 97)

Usual Care
(n = 99)

P-value
Birth mode
 Vaginal 68 (70%) 68 (69%) 0.83
 Cesarean 29 (30%) 31 (31%)
Preterm birth
 <31w, 6d 2 (2%) 0 (0%) 0.17
 32w,0d – 36w,6d 3 (3%) 7 (7%)
Full term birth (>36w,6d) 92 (95%) 92 (93%)
Infant sex
 Female 44 (45%) 46 (46%) 0.88
 Male 53 (55%) 53 (54%)
Small for gestational age 8 (8%) 13 (14%) 0.26
(<10th percentile)
Large for gestational age 10 (10%) 6 (6%) 0.28
(>90th percentile)
Gestational age (weeks) 39.4 ± 1.9 39.4 ± 1.7 0.89
Birth weight (g) 3373 ± 587 3235±532 0.08
Weight for age z-score 0.09 ± 1.30 −0.19 ± 1.23 0.13
Birth length (cm) 51.3 ± 2.7 50.6 ± 2.9 0.07
Length for age z-score 0.92 ± 1.41 0.54 ± 1.55 0.07

Values are n (%) for categorical variables and mean ± SD for continuous variables.