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Table 1 Selected characteristics of pregnant women and their infants according to maternal HIV infection status

From: Selected hematologic and biochemical measurements in African HIV-infected and uninfected pregnant women and their infants: the HIV Prevention Trials Network 024 protocol

Pregnant women in antenatal care

HIV-infected women

HIV-uninfected women

P value

 

N = 2292

n = 367

 

Mean age in years (± SD)

25.2 (0.1)

23.2 (0.3)

< 0.0001

Able to read %

77.3%

79.8%

0.3

Homemakers %

77.7%

86.6%

0.0002

Mean years of education (± SD)

6.6 (0.1)

6.8 (0.2)

0.2

Married or living with partner %

91.5%

96.7%

< 0.0005

Spouse with formal employment %

54.6%

56.6%

0.8

Spouse's years of education (± SD)

9.2 (0.1)

9.3 (0.2)

0.5

Lives in own house %

25.7%

31.3%

0.0015

Electricity in the house %

40.5%

33.8%

0.02

Running water %

42.1%

33.8%

0.003

Infants born to enrolled women*

Mother HIV-infected

Mother HIV-uninfected

P value

 

N = 2052

N = 331

 

Mean birth weight in grams (± SD)

2936.1 (12.9)

3090.4 (28.2)

< 0.0001

Mean Apgar score at 5 min (± SD)

9.6 (< 0.01)

9.6 (0.1)

0.4

Mean gestational age in weeks (± SD)

38.4 (0.1)

38.4 (0.1)

0.9

Mean head circumference (± SD)

34.5 (0.1)

34.9 (0.1)

0.02

Male sex %

50.5%

48.0%

0.4

  1. * Live born infants; if twin, then first born only