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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: BJOG. 2017 Dec 28;125(8):1009–1017. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.15040

Table 2.

Mean differences in maternal cardiovascular markers among women with prior preterm birth with (+) and without (−) placental evidence of malperfusion, compared to women with term births, adjusted for pre-pregnancy features and interval from pregnancy to cardiovascular screening visit

Preterm, + Malperfusion (n=48) Preterm, - Malperfusion (n=67)
difference p* difference p*
Cholesterol (mg/dl) 13.5 (6.1) 0.035 8.0 (5.2) 0.141
LDL-C (mg/dl) 9.1 (5.4) 0101 9.4 (4.6) 0.052
Triglycerides (mg/dl) 16.2 (9.2) 0.092 10.7 (8.0) 0.191
HDL-C (mg/dl) 1.3 (2.1) 0.548 −0.3 (1.8) 0.112
Apolipoprotein-B (mg/dl) 8.0 (4.0) 0.060 5.5 (3.5) 0.129
Systolic BP (mmHg) 4.0 (1.7) 0.028 1.3 (1.5) 0.386
Diastolic BP (mmHg) 2.0 (1.3) 0.146 0.9 (1.2) 0.459
IMT (mm) 0.014 (.01) 0.231 .012 (.01) 0.214

Groups are compared to women with term births, adjusted for race, age at delivery, pre-pregnancy BMI, smoking during pregnancy and years between pregnancy and cardiovascular screening visit