Table 2: Proportion of preterm and full-term births stratified by gestational factors - MEJC, Brazil, 2017.
Variable | Premature n (%) |
Full-term n (%) |
p-value |
Type of pregnancy | < 0.001 | ||
Single | 862 (88.3) | 2327 (97.9) | |
Multiple | 114 (11.7) | 50 (2.1) | |
Prenatal care | < 0.001 | ||
Adequate | 827 (84.7) | 2192 (92.2) | |
Inadequate | 149 (15.3) | 185 (7.8) | |
Presentation | < 0.001 | ||
Cephalic | 841 (86.2) | 2272 (95.6) | |
Breech/shoulder | 135 (13.8) | 105 (4.4) | |
Type of birth | 0.005 | ||
Vaginal | 408 (41.8) | 870 (36.6) | |
Cesarean section | 568 (58.2) | 1507 (63.4) |