Table 4. Neonatal outcomes by anemia status.
*Significant p-value
| Neonatal outcomes | Maternal hemoglobin g/dl | P-value | ||||||
| Moderate | Mild | Normal | ||||||
| 7–9.9 g/dl | 10–10.9 g/dl | ≥11 g/dl | ||||||
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |||
| Living status | Alive born | 84 | 100.0 | 72 | 100.0 | 244 | 100.0 | |
| Newborn gender | Female | 36 | 42.9 | 32 | 44.4 | 117 | 48.0 | 0.681 |
| Male | 48 | 57.1 | 40 | 0.0 | 127 | 52.0 | ||
| Congenital malformation diagnosed | No | 76 | 90.5 | 65 | 90.3 | 239 | 98.0 | 0.003* |
| Yes | 8 | 9.5 | 7 | 9.7 | 5 | 2.0 | ||
| Cardiac anomaly | No | 81 | 96.4 | 71 | 98.6 | 240 | 98.4 | 0.507 |
| Yes | 3 | 3.6 | 1 | 1.4 | 4 | 1.6 | ||
| Renal anomaly | No | 82 | 97.6 | 71 | 98.6 | 244 | 100.0 | 0.073 |
| Yes | 2 | 2.4 | 1 | 1.4 | 243 | 99.6 | ||
| Central nervous system anomaly | No | 84 | 100.0 | 72 | 100.0 | 1 | 0.4 | |
| Musculoskeletal anomaly | No | 84 | 100.0 | 69 | 95.8 | 242 | 99.2 | 0.726 |
| Yes | 3 | 4.2 | 2 | 0.8 | ||||
| Neonatal admission to the neonatal intensive care unit | No | 74 | 88.1 | 63 | 87.5 | 240 | 98.4 | <0.001* |
| Yes | 10 | 11.9 | 9 | 12.5 | 4 | 1.6 | ||
| Birth weight | Less than 2.5 (low birthweight) | 19 | 22.62 | 8 | 11.11 | 25 | 10.25 | 0.062 |
| 2.5-5.5 | 64 | 76.19 | 63 | 87.50 | 214 | 87.70 | ||
| More than 5.5 | 1 | 1.19 | 1 | 1.39 | 5 | 2.05 | ||