Table 1.
Demographics and clinical characteristics of the study groups.
| Exposed Sub-Groups (%) |
Non-Exposed Sub-Groups (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Exposure (n = 73) |
Low Exposure (n = 97) | FSU Immigrants (n = 1427) | Non-FSU Immigrants (n = 1486) |
Israeli (n = 569) |
Total (3652) |
P Value | |
| Mother age at last birth (± SD) | 31.1 ± 4.8 | 30.9 ± 4.5 | 30.4 ± 5.2 | 33.4 ± 5.2 | 33.0 ± 5.1 | <0.001 | |
| Max. birth number | 2.0 ± 0.8 | 2.1 ± 0.9 | 2.6 ± 1.3 | 3.4 ± 1.9 | 3.3 ± 1.8 | <0.001 | |
|
Age at accident
<17 18-25 26-35 35+ |
72.6 19.2 8.2 0.0 |
72.2 23.7 4.1 0.0 |
68.1 19.5 11.8 0.6 |
45.6 25.2 26.4 2.8 |
48.0 17.2 31.1 3.7 |
56.0 21.6 20.5 1.9 |
<0.01 |
|
Parity
1 2-3 4+ |
27.4 68.5 4.1 |
22.7 72.2 5.2 |
17.5 63.8 18.6 |
13.3 45.5 41.3 |
13.5 48.2 38.3 |
15.5 54.2 30.3 |
<0.001 |
| Smoking | 1.4 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 0.140 |
| Blood transfusion | 1.4 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 0.213 |
| Obesity | 0.0 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 0.834 |
| Diabetes mellitus | 19.2 | 12.4 | 14.6 | 12.8 | 13.5 | 13.7 | 0.390 |
| Recurrent miscarriage | 4.1 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 6.6 | <0.01 |
| Fertility treatments | 8.2 | 9.3 | 5.4 | 5.9 | 6.5 | 5.9 | 0.449 |
| Preterm delivery < 37 | 11.0 | 17.5 | 13.4 | 12.8 | 13.5 | 13.2 | 0.695 |