Table 1.
Maternal characteristics and demographics by cannabis-related diagnosis among women in the state of California with deliveries between 2011–2017
| No cannabis-related diagnosis (n=3,037,957) | Any cannabis-related diagnosis (n=29,112) | Cannabis-related diagnosis alone (n=15,321) | Cannabis-related diagnosis and nicotine (n=6,705) | Cannabis-related diagnosis and substance-related diagnosis (with or without nicotine) (n=7,086) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 804386 | 26.5 | 9870 | 33.9 | 4132 | 27.0 | 3049 | 45.5 | 2689 | 37.9 |
| Hispanic | 1494841 | 49.2 | 9540 | 32.8 | 5832 | 38.1 | 1227 | 18.3 | 2481 | 35.0 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 145134 | 4.8 | 6113 | 21.0 | 3490 | 22.8 | 1540 | 23.0 | 1083 | 15.3 |
| Asian | 445027 | 14.6 | 331 | 1.1 | 225 | 1.5 | 47 | 0.7 | 59 | 0.8 |
| Multiple/other | 148569 | 4.9 | 3258 | 11.2 | 1642 | 10.7 | 842 | 12.6 | 774 | 10.9 |
| Maternal age | ||||||||||
| Less than 18 years | 50750 | 1.7 | 925 | 3.2 | 636 | 4.2 | 137 | 2.0 | 152 | 2.1 |
| 18–34 years | 2367034 | 77.9 | 25845 | 88.8 | 13648 | 89.1 | 6039 | 90.1 | 6158 | 86.9 |
| Greater than 34 years | 620062 | 20.4 | 2340 | 8.0 | 1037 | 6.8 | 528 | 7.9 | 775 | 10.9 |
| missing | 11 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 |
| Source of payment | ||||||||||
| Private insurance | 1453172 | 47.8 | 6849 | 23.5 | 4588 | 29.9 | 1162 | 17.3 | 1099 | 15.5 |
| Public insurance | 1438576 | 47.4 | 21499 | 73.8 | 10456 | 68.2 | 5408 | 80.7 | 5635 | 79.5 |
| Other payment | 146209 | 4.8 | 764 | 2.6 | 277 | 1.8 | 135 | 2.0 | 352 | 5.0 |
| Maternal education | ||||||||||
| Less than 12 years | 519005 | 17.1 | 7389 | 25.4 | 3276 | 21.4 | 1821 | 27.2 | 2292 | 32.3 |
| missing | 128919 | 4.2 | 1590 | 5.5 | 797 | 5.2 | 332 | 5.0 | 461 | 6.5 |
| Pre-pregnancy BMI | ||||||||||
| Underweight/normal weight | 1491324 | 49.1 | 14056 | 48.3 | 7127 | 46.5 | 3380 | 50.4 | 3549 | 50.1 |
| Overweight | 762791 | 25.1 | 6665 | 22.9 | 3651 | 23.8 | 1439 | 21.5 | 1575 | 22.2 |
| Obese | 657707 | 21.6 | 6853 | 23.5 | 3945 | 25.7 | 1564 | 23.3 | 1344 | 19.0 |
| Missing | 126135 | 4.2 | 1538 | 5.3 | 598 | 3.9 | 32.2 | 4.8 | 618 | 8.7 |
| Anxiety disorder | 66001 | 2.2 | 3232 | 11.1 | 1438 | 9.4 | 765 | 11.4 | 1029 | 14.5 |
| Major depressive disorder | 57756 | 1.9 | 3256 | 11.2 | 1433 | 9.4 | 725 | 10.8 | 1098 | 15.5 |
| Bipolar disorder | 19810 | 0.7 | 2244 | 7.7 | 671 | 4.4 | 559 | 8.3 | 1014 | 14.3 |
| Preexisting diabetes | 350947 | 11.6 | 2738 | 9.4 | 1366 | 8.9 | 666 | 9.9 | 706 | 10.0 |
| Preexisting hypertension | 65941 | 2.2 | 1361 | 4.7 | 583 | 3.8 | 300 | 4.4 | 478 | 6.7 |
| Nicotine | 82645 | 2.7 | 10721 | 36.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 6705 | 100.0 | 4016 | 56.7 |
| Substance-related diagnosisa | 27192 | 0.9 | 7086 | 24.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 7086 | 100.0 |
| Alcohol-related diagnosis | 4732 | 0.2 | 1499 | 5.1 | 125 | 0.8 | 88 | 1.3 | 1286 | 18.1 |
a
excluding alcohol or cannabis-related diagnoses