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Volume 22, Number 1—January 2016
Dispatch

Factors Related to Fetal Death in Pregnant Women with Cholera, Haiti, 2011–2014

Erin Schillberg, Cono Ariti, Lindsay Bryson, Rodnie Delva-Senat, Debbie Price, Reynold GrandPierre, and Annick LengletComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Médecins Sans Frontières, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (E. Schillberg, L. Bryson, R. Delva-Senat); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (C. Ariti); Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (D. Price, A. Lenglet); Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population, Port-au-Prince (R. GrandPierre)

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Table 1

Characteristics of pregnant cholera patients by pregnancy outcome and risk factors, Haiti, 2011–2014*

Characteristic
 No. (%) fetal deaths, n = 141
 Unadjusted analysis
Adjusted analysis†
OR (95% CI)‡
 p value§
 OR (95% CI)‡
 p value§
Age group, y
<20 30 (21.3) 2.08 (1.30–3.33) 0.01
1.98 (1.21–3.24) 0.02
20–34 96 (68.1) Referent Referent
≥35 15 (10.6) 1.02 (0.57–1.83) 1.00 (0.55–1.84)
Missing
 0
Time from onset to admission, h
≤24 59 (41.8) Referent 0.04
Referent 0.04
>24 82 (58.2) 1.47 (1.02–2.12) 1.49 (1.02–2.17)
Missing
 0
Trimester of pregnancy
First 17 (12.1) Referent 0.02
Referent 0.001
Second 41 (29.1) 1.39 (0.76–2.53) 1.37 (0.74–2.53)
Third 79 (56.0) 2.08 (1.19–3.64) 2.43 (1.37–4.31)
Missing
 4 (2.8)
Dehydration level
None 37 (26.2) Referent 0.001
Referent 0.02
Moderate 73 (51.8) 1.83 (0.20–2.79) 1.54 (0.99–2.41)
Severe 31 (22.0) 2.62 (1.55–4.44) 2.17 (1.24–3.81)
Missing
 0
Vomiting
Yes 116 (82.3) 2.25 (1.42–3.59) 0.001 2.10 (1.27–3.47) 0.001
No 24 (17.0) Referent Referent
Missing 1 (0.7)

*Of 900 pregnancies analyzed. OR, odds ratio.
†Adjusted for all list characteristics.
‡From logistic regression model with fetal death as the outcome and list characteristics as exposure.
§From Wald tests of parameters of logistic regression model.

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