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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Jan 29;220(5):476.e1–476.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2019.01.229

Table 1.

Demographics of CHOICE Participants by BMI Category, N=5,918

All Participants by BMI Category (kg/m2)
Participants Underweight
< 18.5
Lean
18.5–24.9
Overweight
25–29.9
Class I Obese
30–34.9
Class II/III Obese
≥ 35
N=5918 N=174 N=2,312 N=1,540 N=934 N=958 p-value*
Age, mean(SD) 25.3 (5.9) 23.2 (4.7) 24.1 (5.4) 25.6 (6.0) 26.1 (6.2) 26.9 (6.1) <0.001
Race
 Black 3001 (50.7) 72 (41.4) 870 (37.6) 809 (52.5) 570 (61.0) 680 (71.0) <0.001
 White 2457 (41.5) 84 (48.3) 1250 (54.1) 604 (39.2) 296 (31.7) 223 (23.3)
 Other 460 (7.8) 18 (10.3) 192 (8.3) 127 (8.3) 68 (7.3) 55 (5.7)
Hispanic 300 (5.1) 9 (5.2) 105 (4.5) 99 (6.4) 53 (5.7) 34 (3.6) 0.014
Monthly income
 None 1226 (20.8) 35 (20.1) 524 (22.7) 304 (19.8) 187 (20.1) 176 (18.4) <0.001
 $1–800 1903 (32.3) 75 (43.1) 780 (33.9) 494 (32.1) 258 (27.7) 296 (31.0)
 $801–1600 1666 (28.2) 45 (25.9) 587 (25.5) 436 (28.4) 295 (31.7) 303 (31.7)
 $1601+ 1106 (18.7) 19 (10.9) 413 (17.9) 304 (19.8) 190 (20.4) 180 (18.9)
Receiving public assistance 2250 (38.1) 48 (27.8) 639 (27.7) 625 (40.6) 445 (47.7) 493 (51.5) <0.001
Trouble paying for basic necessities 2393 (40.5) 62 (35.6) 828 (35.9) 625 (40.6) 433 (46.4) 445 (46.5) <0.001
Education
 ≤ High school 2007 (33.9) 71 (40.8) 734 (31.8) 535 (34.8) 345 (37.0) 322 (33.6) <0.001
 Some college 2512 (42.4) 67 (38.5) 895 (38.7) 670 (43.5) 408 (43.8) 472 (49.3)
 College graduate 1396 (23.6) 36 (20.7) 683 (29.5) 334 (21.7) 179 (19.2) 164 (17.1)
Ever smoking 2765 (46.7) 79 (45.4) 1123 (48.6) 731 (47.5) 514 (55.0) 546 (57.0) 0.037
Current smoking 1367 (23.1) 48 (27.6) 550 (23.8) 374 (24.3) 199 (21.3) 196 (20.5) 0.044
Sexual partners last 30 days
 None 1125 (19.2) 21 (12.4) 390 (17.1) 316 (20.7) 191 (20.7) 207 (21.8) 0.004
 One 4356 (74.5) 136 (80.0) 1750 (76.8) 1124 (73.6) 673 (72.8) 673 (70.9)
 2 or more 370 (6.3) 13 (7.7) 139 (6.1) 88 (5.8) 61 (6.6) 69 (7.3)
Lifetime sexual partners
 None 39 (0.7) 0 12 (0.5) 14 (0.9) 4 (0.4) 9 (1.0) <0.001
 One 516 (8.7) 14 (8.1) 253 (10.9) 128 (8.3) 72 (7.7) 49 (5.1)
 2–4 1630 (27.5) 56 (32.2) 680 (29.4) 433 (28.1) 231 (24.7) 230 (24.0)
 5–7 1727 (29.2) 56 (32.2) 646 (27.9) 428 (27.8) 303 (32.4) 294 (30.7)
 8–12 839 (14.2) 15 (8.6) 308 (13.3) 225 (14.6) 136 (14.6) 155 (16.2)
 13 or more 1167 (19.7) 33 (19.0) 413 (17.9) 312 (20.3) 188 (20.1) 221 (23.1)
Douching in the past 180 days 1340 (22.7) 32 (18.4) 407 (17.6) 354 (23.0) 248 (26.6) 299 (31.2) <0.001
Douching in the past 30 days 590 (10.0) 19 (10.9) 168 (7.3) 162 (10.6) 99 (10.6) 142 (14.9) <0.001
Past sexually transmitted infection 2461 (41.6) 63 (36.2) 801 (34.7) 660 (42.9) 441 (47.2) 496 (51.8) <0.001
Sexually transmitted infection at baseline 518 (8.8) 17 (9.8) 170 (7.4) 132 (8.6) 85 (9.1) 114 (11.9) 0.001
Current menstruation flag 856 (14.5) 19 (10.9) 342 (14.8) 216 (14.0) 129 (13.8) 150 (15.7) 0.458
Current hormonal contraceptive method prior to enrollment 1520 (25.7) 38 (21.8) 636 (27.5) 412 (26.8) 199 (21.3) 235 (24.5) 0.003

Except for age, all demographics are reported as N (%). SD – standard deviation; BMI – body mass index

*

p-values were determined using chi-square test (all categorical variables) or linear regression (age). For categorical variables, p-values represent the distribution of a given categorical variable for All Participants and within a specific BMI category, as shown.