Table. Spearman Rank Correlations Between State-Level Perinatal Indicators, 2017-2019.
| Indicator | r (95% CI) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Severe maternal morbidity | Prepregnancy hypertension | Prepregnancy diabetes | Prepregnancy obesity | Low-risk cesarean delivery | Preterm birth | Infant mortality | Maternal mortalitya | |
| Severe maternal morbidity | 1 | 0.39 (0.12 to 0.61) | 0.06 (–0.23 to 0.34) | –0.28 (–0.53 to 0.00) | 0.36 (0.08 to 0.58) | 0.04 (–0.24 to 0.32) | –0.07 (–0.35 to 0.22) | –0.25 (–0.52 to 0.05) |
| Prepregnancy hypertension | 1 | 0.57 (0.33 to 0.73) | 0.48 (0.23 to 0.68) | 0.51 (0.26 to 0.69) | 0.68 (0.48 to 0.81) | 0.65 (0.45 to 0.79) | 0.42 (0.13 to 0.64) | |
| Prepregnancy diabetes | 1 | 0.57 (0.34 to 0.73) | 0.01 (–0.27 to 0.29) | 0.52 (0.28 to 0.70) | 0.50 (0.25 to 0.69) | 0.27 (–0.04 to 0.53) | ||
| Prepregnancy obesity | 1 | 0.15 (–0.13 to 0.41) | 0.56 (0.33 to 0.72) | 0.66 (0.48 to 0.79) | 0.54 (0.48 to 0.79) | |||
| Low-risk cesarean delivery | 1 | 0.49 (0.25 to 0.68) | 0.31 (0.04 to 0.54) | 0.32 (0.02 to 0.56) | ||||
| Preterm birth | 1 | 0.82 (0.71 to 0.90) | 0.59 (0.35 to 0.75) | |||||
| Infant mortality | 1 | 0.56 (0.32 to 0.74) | ||||||
| Maternal mortality | 1 | |||||||
a
Maternal mortality rates used 5-year data (2016-2020) because of small numbers.