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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertens Res. 2018 Feb 15;41(4):282–289. doi: 10.1038/s41440-018-0017-5

Table 2.

Characteristics of women with and without PTB/SGA at the exam immediately preceding index birth.

PTB/SGA
n=59 		No PTB/SGA
n=176 		P-value
Age (yrs) 33 ± 1 32 ± 1 0.21
Time to 1st Birth (yrs) 2.6 ± 0.4 2.5 ± 0.2 0.98
Black Race (n, %)* 30, 50 55, 31 0.01
Smoking Status (n, %)
Current* 15, 25 22, 13 0.02
Former 7, 12 28, 16 0.45
BMI (kg/m2) 24.9 ± 0.4 25.0 ± 0.8 0.94
Hypertension (n, %) 3, 5 3, 2 0.15
Diabetes (n, %) 0, 0 2, 1 0.41
HTN in Pregnancy (n,%) 14, 24 26, 15 0.11
Gestational Diabetes (n,%) 3, 5 6, 3 0.56
SBP (mmHg) 106 ± 1 103 ± 1 0.13
DBP (mmHg) 68 ± 1 67 ± 1 0.83
TC (mg/dL) 182 ± 7 178 ± 3 0.67
HDL-C (mg/dL) 59 ± 2 59 ± 1 0.83
LDL-C (mg/dL) 108 ± 6 104 ± 2 0.98
Triglycerides (mg/dL) 73 ± 6 73 ± 4 0.81

Time to 1st Birth: time in years from the measurement of endothelial biomarkers until the index birth, BMI: body mass index, Gestational Diabetes: gestational diabetes in index birth, HTN in Pregnancy: hypertensive disorder of pregnancy in index birth, SBP: systolic BP, DBP: diastolic BP, TC: total cholesterol, HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.

*

p< 0.05 for difference between women by PTB/SGA group.