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. 2021 Apr 29;11:641005. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.641005

Table 6.

Odds of Birth Outcome According to CST (5-Category) (Full Term = Referent).

Vaginal CST Category OR (95% Confidence Interval)
Spontaneous Preterm N = 44 Spontaneous Early Term N = 84
unadjusted adjusted 1 unadjusted adjusted 1
Non-iners Lactobacillus Ref Ref Ref Ref
Lactobacillus iners 3.9 (0.89, 36.7)
(1.1, inf)#
4.0 (0.8, 38)
(1.1, inf)#
0.6 (0.3, 1.3) 0.6 (0.3, 1.2)
Diverse 8.1 (2.0, 73.4)
(2.4, inf) #
7.7 (1.8, 72.0)
(2.2, inf) #
0.8 (0.4, 1.5) 0.9 (0.4, 1.8)
Diverse-A 8.1 (1.9, 75.1)
(2.3, inf) #
7.6 (1.7, 73.1)
(2.1, inf) #
0.8 (0.4, 1.6) 0.8 (0.4, 1.9)
Diverse-B 8.8 (2.0, 82.7)
(2.5, inf) #
8.2 (1.8, 79.3)
(2.2, inf) #
0.9 (0.4, 1.9) 1.0 (0.4, 2.3)
Diverse-C 3.9 (0.02, 89.1) 3.5 (0.02, 108.5) 0.3 (0.002, 3.3) 0.3 (0.002, 4.0)

1Co-variates included in the multivariate model include age, education level, insurance type, marital-cohabitation status, parity, first prenatal BMI category, tobacco use, marijuana use, gestational age of sample.

#One-sided confidence interval; bold indicates statistical significance for α = 0.05.