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Birth outcomes and complications of undocumented migrants vs. women with legal residency status (control group) who delivered at the Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland between February 2005 and October 2006 |
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| Characteristic or measurement |
Undocumented births (n = 106) |
Missing n (%) |
Control group (n = 229) |
Missing n (%) |
p-value |
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| Gravidity (SD) |
2.3 (1.4) |
- |
2.4 (1.4) |
- |
0.97 |
| Parity (SD) |
1.7 (1.0) |
- |
1.7 (0.9) |
- |
0.99 |
| Mean gestational age (SD) |
38.9 (1.9) |
- |
39.4 (1.4) |
- |
0.02 |
| Pre-term births (< 37 weeks) |
8.5% |
3.9% |
0.09 |
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| Post-term births (> 40 weeks) |
15.1% |
- |
21.0% |
- |
0.20 |
| Delivery: |
- |
- |
0.14 |
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| Vaginal spontaneous |
59.8% |
63.9% |
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| Forceps |
3.7% |
4.3% |
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| Vacuum |
11.2% |
10.9% |
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| Cesarean |
25.2% |
20.0% |
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| Complications during pregnancy |
31.1% |
- |
33.6% |
- |
0.70 |
| Complications during delivery* |
26.3% |
- |
32.8% |
- |
0.36 |
| Complications during post partum |
3.7% |
- |
2.2% |
- |
0.41 |
| Sex of the child (male) |
50.5% |
- |
54.6% |
1 (0.4) |
0.48 |
| Health of the child |
- |
- |
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| Good health |
96.2% |
95.6% |
0.53 |
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| Born dead |
0.9% |
0.4% |
0.58 |
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| Transfer to Neonatology for serious health hazard) |
3 (2.8%) |
9 (3.9%) |
0.44 |
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| Birth weight in g (SD) |
3293.9 (521) |
- |
3380.9 (495) |
- |
0.15 |
| Low birth weight (< 2500 g) |
4.7% |
2.6% |
0.24 |
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| Apgar 1 (mean (SD)) |
8.5 (1.4) |
- |
8.7 (1.3) |
1 (0.4) |
0.43 |
| Apgar 2 (mean (SD)) |
9.7 (0.8) |
- |
9.7 (0.6) |
1 (0.4) |
0.73 |
| Apgar 3 (mean (SD)) |
9.9 (0.5) |
- |
9.9 (0.4) |
1 (0.4) |
0.86 |
| Neonatal Complications |
2.8% |
- |
6.6% |
- |
0.07 |
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* caesarean section excluded | |||||
Wolff et al. BMC Public Health 2008 8:93 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-93 |
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