Table 2.
Risk factor | Proportion (n) of women with risk factor (total n=682) |
Diabetes | 33.9% (231) |
Hypertension | 18.9% (129) |
Adolescent | 10.0% (68) |
Urinary tract infection | 5.6% (38) |
Twin pregnancy | 4.3% (29) |
Hypothyroidism | 4.1% (28) |
Obesity or previous bariatric surgery | 3.2% (22) |
Pre-eclampsia | 2.6% (18) |
Syphilis | 2.3% (16) |
Asthma | 2.1% (14) |
Previous preterm labour or foetal death | 1.8% (12) |
Epilepsy | 1.8% (12) |
Threatened preterm labour | 1.6% (11) |
Heart disease | 1.5% (10) |
Anaemia (including sickle cell and thalassaemia) | 1.3% (9) |
Illicit drug use | 1.0% (7) |
Psychiatric illness | 0.7% (5) |
HIV | 0.4% (3) |
Note: Categories are not mutually exclusive.