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Table 3 Parent’s Baseline Characteristics according to CDH Patients and Control Group

From: Parental risk factors for congenital diaphragmatic hernia – a large German case-control study

 

CDH patients (n = 199)

control group (n = 597)

P valuec

Maternal age, median (range)

32 (19–44)

31 (17–60)

0.147

Paternal age, median (range)

34 (20–56)

34 (19–72)a

0.502

Number of pregnancies, median (range)

2 (1–12)

2 (1–8)b

0.217

Maternal BMI before pregnancy, median (range)

23.2 (16.8–39.9)a

22.7 (16.4–56.1)b

0.526

  1. Abbreviation: BMI body mass index (kg/m2)
  2. aData was missing in 6 cases
  3. bData was missing in 17 cases
  4. cCalculated by Mann-Whitney U-test