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. 2019 Aug 9;19:287. doi: 10.1186/s12884-019-2437-x

Table 3.

Risk of pre/post term relative to full term by maternal country of birth: 1997–2010 (n = 345,837)

Gestational age ANI
(n = 231,950)
AI
(n = 20,206)
FB-LIC
(n = 2840)
FB-LMIC
(n = 17,951)
FB-UMIC
(n = 17,452)
FB-HIC
(n = 55,438)
n cRRR, (95%CI) aRRRa (95%CI) n cRRR, (95%CI) aRRRa (95%CI) n cRRR, (95%CI) aRRRa (95%CI) n cRRR, (95%CI) aRRRa (95%CI) n cRRR, (95%CI) aRRRa (95%CI) n cRRR, (95%CI) aRRRa (95%CI)

Extreme preterm

(< 28 weeks)

1457 Ref Ref 370 3.27 (2.91, 3.67) 2.75 (2.41, 3.14) 30 1.46 (1.02, 2.11) 1.42 (0.98, 2.04) 137 1.29 (1.08, 1.54) 1.32 (1.10, 1.57) 106 1.00 (0.82, 1.22) 1.02 (0.83, 1.24) 349 0.99 (0.88, 1.12) 0.96 (0.85, 1.08)

Very early preterm

(28–32 weeks)

1269 Ref Ref 321 3.26 (2.88, 3.69) 2.73 (2.37, 3.14) 25 1.40 (0.94, 2.08) 1.37 (0.92, 2.04) 121 1.31 (1.08, 1.58)) 1.34 (1.11, 1.62) 97 1.05 (0.85, 1.29) 1.08 (0.87, 1.33) 313 1.02 (0.90, 1.16) 0.99 (0.88, 1.13)

Early preterm

(32–33 weeks)

1570 Ref Ref 347 2.85 (2.53, 3.20) 2.59 (2.27, 2.96) 16 0.72 (0.44, 1.19) 0.71 (0.43, 1.17) 130 1.14 (0.95, 1.36) 1.16 (0.97, 1.39) 103 0.90 (0.74, 1.10) 0.91 (0.74, 1.11) 402 1.06 (0.95, 1.19) 1.02 (0.91, 1.14)

Late preterm

(34–36 weeks)

11,822 Ref Ref 1900 2.07 (1.96, 2.18) 1.91 (1.81, 2.03) 100 0.60 (0.49, 0.74) 0.60 (0.50, 0.74) 958 1.11 (1.04, 1.19) 1.14 (1.07, 1.23) 865 1.00 (0.94, 1.08) 1.01 (0.94, 1.09) 2659 0.93 (0.89, 0.97) 0.89 (0.85, 0.93)

Early term

(37–38 weeks)

73,135 Ref Ref 6173 1.09 (1.05, 1.12) 1.20 (1.17, 1.25) 656 0.64 (0.58, 0.70) 0.62 (0.57, 0.68) 6196 1.16 (1.12, 1.20) 1.15 (1.11, 1.19) 5903 1.11 (1.07, 1.15) 1.06 (1.02, 1.09) 17,311 0.98 (0.96, 1.00) 0.90 (0.88, 0.92)

Full term

(39–41 weeks)

142,379 11,054 2004 10,386 10,360 34,345

Post term

(42 > weeks)

318 Ref Ref 41 1.67 (1.20, 2.30) 1.73 (1.20, 2.48) 9 2.01 (1.03, 3.90) 1.93 (0.99, 3.78) 23 0.99 (0.65, 1.51) 0.98 (0.64, 1.50) 18 0.78 (0.48, 1.25) 0.76 (0.47, 1.22) 59 0.77 (0.58, 1.01) 0.73 (0.55, 0.97)

ANI Australian-born mothers of non-Indigenous backgrounds, AI Australian-born mothers of Indigenous background, FB-LIC foreign-born mothers from low-income countries, FB-LMIC foreign-born mothers from lower-middle-income countries, FB-UMIC foreign-born mothers of upper-middle-income countries, FB-HIC foreign-born mothers from high-income countries, cRRR crude relative risk ratio, aRRR adjusted relative risk ratio, CI confidence interval, Ref reference group

a Adjusted for parity, birth year, SEIFA score, maternal smoking status, maternal age, and sex