Factors associated with adverse perinatal outcome in the Term Breech Trial☆
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Methods
We studied the effect of mode of delivery and the effect of variables associated with labor, on adverse perinatal outcome, in two steps, that is, using two separate regression analyses because these variables are very highly correlated with each other. In the first step we included mode of delivery but not factors associated with labor; in the second step, we included factors associated with labor but not mode of delivery. Active labor was defined as contractions 5 minutes or less apart and the
Effect of mode of delivery on adverse perinatal outcome
Single-factor analyses found no significant associations between baseline characteristics and adverse perinatal outcome (Table I). Mode of delivery (P<.001) and birth weight (P = .007) were both associated with adverse perinatal outcome on single-factor analyses (Table II).
Multiple logistic regression analyses found mode of delivery (P<.001) and birth weight (P = .03) to be both significantly associated with adverse perinatal outcome (Table III). There was no significant interaction between mode of
Comment
This secondary analysis of data from the Term Breech Trial found a prelabor cesarean section to be associated with the lowest risk of adverse perinatal outcome for the singleton fetus in breech presentation at term. The risk was higher if a cesarean section was undertaken during early labor, higher still if a cesarean section was undertaken during active labor, and highest if a vaginal birth occurred. There was thus a dose-response relationship between the progression of labor and the risk of
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Supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR, previously the Medical Research Council of Canada), grant No. MT 13884. M. E.H. holds a CIHR Senior Scientist Award. The Data Coordinating Centre was supported by grants from the Centre for Research in Women's Health, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Toronto.
Presented at the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, San Francisco, Calif, February 3-8, 2003.
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