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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2018 Aug 31;99:80–86. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.08.038

Table 1.

Baseline Demographics by Patients’ Emotional State (N=49)

Characteristic Total N = 49 More depressed N = 12 (24%) Less depressed N = 37 (76%) P More anxious N = 28 (57%) Less anxious N = 21 (43%) P
Maternal Age* 26.3 ± 5.2 25.5 ± 5.1 26.3 ± 5.2 0.6550 26.0 ± 5.5 26.3 ± 4.8 0.8519
Race* 0.7250 0.3648
 Black 22 (46%) 7 (58%) 15 (42%) 14 (50%) 8 (40%)
 Hispanic 24 (50%) 5 (42%) 19 (53%) 12 (43%) 12 (60%)
 Other 2 (4%) 0 2 (6%) 2 (7%) 0
Pre-pregnancy BMI ≥ 25* 26 (57%) 7 (58%) 19 (56%) 0.8829 16 (64%) 10 (48%) 0.2643
Asthma 13 (27%) 3 (25%) 10 (27%) 0.8901 9 (32%) 4 (19%) 0.3477
PE/GPH/PIH* 9 (19%) 2 (17%) 7 (19%) 1.0000 7 (25%) 2 (10%) 0.2707
Low birth weight 6 (12%) 0 6 (16%) 0.3142 5 (18%) 1 (5%) 0.2192
Pre-Term Birth 8 (16%) 2 (17%) 6 (16%) 1.0000 6 (21%) 2 (10%) 0.4384
Medicaid* 44 (92%) 12 (100%) 32 (89%) 0.5597 25 (89%) 19 (95%) 0.6309
Edu ≤ HS* 21 (44%) 6 (50%) 15 (42%) 0.6143 13 (46%) 8 (40%) 0.6580
Married/Partner* 33 (69%) 7 (58%) 26 (72%) 0.3687 15 (54%) 18 (90%) 0.0108
Systemic Infection during pregnancy 9 (18%) 2 (17%) 7 (19%) 1.000 7 (25%) 2 (10%) 0.2670
Median serum cortisol (μg/dL) 13.8 11.1 0.765 10.1 12.2 0.798
*

Missing values exist in demographic variables.