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Table 3 Association between pelvic girdle pain (PGP) and personal factors (ethnicity, parity, education, and age) at gestation week 15 presented with crude and adjusted odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI)

From: Pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy and early postpartum – prevalence and risk factors in a multi-ethnic cohort

  

Gestation week 15

Crude OR (95% CI)

p -value

Adjusted OR (95% CI)

p-value

Ethnicity

Western

Reference

<0.001

Reference

<0.001

South Asia

2.2 (1.5, 3.2)

 

2.0 (1.3, 2.9)

 

Middle East

2.7 (1.8, 4.2)

 

2.4 (1.5, 3.9)

 

Mixed ethnic group

1.5 (1.0, 2.2)

 

1.3 (0.9, 2.1)

 

Parity

Nulliparous

Reference

<0.001

Reference

0.006

Primiparous

1.3 (0.9, 1.8)

 

1.4 (0.97, 1.9)

 

Multiparous

1.7 (1.1, 2.6)

 

2.0 (1.3, 3.2)

 

Education

Primary or less

Reference

0.042

Reference

0.694

High school/secondary

0.9 (0.6, 1.4)

 

1.2 (0.8, 1.9)

 

College/University

0.65 (0.43, 0.98)

 

1.2 (0.7, 1.9)

 

Age

 

0.99 (0.96, 1.02)

0.531

1.0 (0.9, 1.0)

0.248

  1. Mixed ethnic group: women mainly from Eastern Europe, East Asia, South and Central America, and Africa (Supplementary Table 1)
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