Table 4.
All preterm births | Clinical presentation | Gestational age at delivery | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Preterm (n = 126) | p | Spontaneous (n = 91) | p | Indicated (n = 35) | p | 34-< 37 weeks (n = 99) | p | <34 weeks (n = 27) | p | |
Carotid IMT (all segments)* | 0.014 (0.01) | 0.058 | 0.007 (0.01) | 0.442 | 0.034 (0.01) | 0.007 | 0.019 (0.01) | 0.023 | −0.002 (0.02) | 0.890 |
Common carotid IMT | 0.007 (0.01) | 0.343 | −0.003 (0.01) | 0.722 | 0.031 (0.01) | 0.009 | 0.010 (0.01) | 0.182 | −0.006 (0.01) | 0.630 |
Carotid bulb IMT | 0.031 (0.02) | 0.034 | 0.029 (0.02) | 0.093 | 0.038 (0.03) | 0.126 | 0.035 (0.02) | 0.037 | 0.019 (0.03) | 0.486 |
Internal carotid IMT | 0.012 (0.01) | 0.329 | 0.003 (0.01) | 0.838 | 0.036 (0.02) | 0.107 | 0.019 (0.01) | 0.158 | −0.014 (0.02) | 0.548 |
Mean of the common, carotid bulb and internal carotid IMTs.