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. 2021 Apr 26;21:326. doi: 10.1186/s12884-021-03784-8

Table 3.

Characteristics of women exposed to SARS-CoV-2 during gestation by c-section

Pregnant women No C-section C-section p-value* OR
N = 105 N = 67 N = 32
Age (years) 34.1 [28.9;37.0] 34.9 [30.9;36.9] 33.1 [27.8;36.9] 0.233 0.95 [0.89;1.02]
Ethnics 0.766
Caucasian 63 (65.6%) 41 (68.3%) 22 (61.1%) Ref.
African 2 (2.08%) 1 (1.67%) 1 (2.78%)
Arabic 1 (1.04%) 1 (1.67%) 0 (0.00%)
LA 30 (31.2%) 17 (28.3%) 13 (36.1%)
GA at diagnosis (w) 36.9 [33.6;39.1] 37.6 [34.2;39.4] 36.6 [31.7;39.0] 0.325 0.95 [0.87;1.04]
Time of diagnosis 0.096
Second trimester 7 (6.67%) 2 (2.99%) 5 (13.2%) Ref.
Third trimester 98 (93.3%) 65 (97.0%) 33 (86.8%) 0.21 [0.03;1.10]
Blood group 0.488
O 46 (44.7%) 31 (47.0%) 15 (40.5%) Ref.
A 42 (40.8%) 28 (42.4%) 14 (37.8%) 1.03 [0.42;2.55]
B 10 (9.71%) 5 (7.58%) 5 (13.5%) 2.04 [0.48;8.71]
AB 5 (4.85%) 2 (3.03%) 3 (8.11%) 2.96 [0.41;27.7]
Rh Positive 91 (88.3%) 59 (89.4%) 32 (86.5%) 0.752 0.76 [0.22;2.82]
Any comorbidity 36 (34.3%) 24 (35.8%) 12 (31.6%) 0.821 2.27 [0.95;5.48]
Symptomatology 68 (64.8%) 38 (56.7%) 30 (78.9%) 0.038 2.81 [1.15;7.48]
Pneumonia COVID-19 32 (30.8%) 12 (18.2%) 20 (52.6%) < 0.001 4.88 [2.02;12.4]
Treatment 59 (56.2%) 43 (64.2%) 16 (42.1%) 0.047 0.41 [0.18;0.93]
Need of UCI admission 5 (4.76%) 1 (1.49%) 4 (10.5%) 0.056 6.94 [0.92;195]
Days at ICU 10.0 [10.0;14.0] 10.0 [10.0;10.0] 12.0 [8.25;16.2] 0.717 1.07 [0.74;1.54]
RT-PCR+ at delivery 65 (61.9%) 39 (58.2%) 26 (68.4%) 0.409 1.54 [0.67;3.68]
GA at delivery (w) 39.0 [37.6;40.0] 39.4 [38.4;40.1] 38.1 [34.6;39.9] 0.003 0.73 [0.60;0.88]
Preterm birth 21 (20.6%) 7 (10.9%) 14 (36.8%) 0.004 4.62 [1.69;13.8]

C-section Caesarean section, LA Latin American, GA Gestational Age, w weeks, ICU Intensive Care Unit, RT-PCR Real Time- Polymerase Chain Reaction, w weeks. *p-value was calculated using Chi-squared or Fisher test for categorical variables and U-Mann Whitney for continuous variables