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Table 4 Neonatal outcomes in lifestyle intervention and control groups

From: Effects of a lifestyle intervention during pregnancy to prevent excessive gestational weight gain in routine care – the cluster-randomised GeliS trial

 

Intervention

Control

Unadjusted effect size (95% CI)

p value

Adjusted effect sizea (95% CI)

Adjusted p valuea

Birth weight, g

3313 ± 536b (n = 1015)

3363 ± 498 (n = 1003)

– 50.2 (– 80.6 to – 19.7)

0.001

– 44.0 (– 81.0 to – 7.0)

0.020

Birth length, cm

51.1 ± 2.7 (n = 1011)

51.6 ± 2.5 (n = 992)

– 0.5 (– 0.7 to – 0.2)

< 0.001

– 0.5 (– 0.7 to – 0.2)

0.001

Head circumference, cm

34.6 ± 1.7 (n = 1008)

34.8 ± 1.5 (n = 973)

– 0.2 (– 0.4 to 0.0)

0.070

– 0.2 (– 0.4 to 0.0)

0.093

Large for gestational age (> 90th percentile)

73/1013 (7.2%)

75/1003 (7.5%)

0.99 (0.87 to 1.12)

0.869

1.01 (0.86 to 1.20)

0.864

Small for gestational age (< 10th percentile)

88/1013 (8.7%)

84/1003 (8.4%)

1.06 (0.83 to 1.34)

0.651

1.03 (0.82 to 1.31)

0.780

Macrosomia (weight > 4500 g)

13/1015 (1.3%)

6/1003 (0.6%)

2.01 (0.58 to 6.89)

0.268

2.28 (0.66 to 7.90)

0.195

Preterm birth

72/1014 (7.1%)

60/1004 (6.0%)

1.21 (0.83 to 1.77)

0.319

1.18 (0.78 to 1.79)

0.437

Neonatal complications at birth

101/1014 (10.0%)

82/1001 (8.2%)

1.23 (0.90 to 1.68)

0.186

1.18 (0.86 to 1.61)

0.310

  1. aAdjusted for pre-pregnancy BMI, age and parity
  2. bMean ± SD (all such values)