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Table 3 Clinical conditions and risk of perinatal death in newborns whose mothers had severe obstetric complications

From: Still births, neonatal deaths and neonatal near miss cases attributable to severe obstetric complications: a prospective cohort study in two referral hospitals in Uganda

Characteristic

Perinatal and neonatal deaths (n = 626)

ΩNear miss and uncomplicated newborns (n = 1516)

Crude risk ratios and 95% CI

p-values

Hemorrhage

    

None

10 (4.1)

28 (11.6)

Ref

 

Antepartum

60 (24.5)

56 (23.2)

3.00 (1.33–6.73)

0.008

Postpartum

69 (28.3

125 (51.9)

1.55 (0.70–3.37)

0.274

Ruptured uterus

106 (43.3)

32 (13.3)

9.07 (4.27–21.12)

<0.001

Obstructed labor

110 (17.5)

200 (13.1)

2.26 (1.56–3.62)

0.002

Hypertensive disorders

    

Mild or no preeclampsia

461 (73.6)

1294 (85.4)

Ref

 

Severe preeclampsia

83 (13.3)

126 (8.3)

1.84 (1.37–2.49)

0.001

Eclampsia

73 (11.6)

92 (6.1)

2.22 (1.60–3.08)

0.01

Chronic Hypertension

3 (0.5)

1 (0.0)

8.42 (0.87–81.15)

0.065

HELLP Syndrome

6 (1.0)

3 (0.2)

5.61 (1.40–22.45)

0.015

  1. ΩNeonatal near miss cases and newborns with minimal or no neonatal complications.