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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 2

Characteristics of pregnant cholera patients by pregnancy outcome and treatment group, Haiti, 2011–2014*

Characteristic
 No. (%) postadmission fetal deaths, n = 77
 Unadjusted analysis Adjusted analysis†
OR (95%)‡
 p value§
 OR (95% CI)†
 p value§
Treatment group
1 12 (15.6) 1.19 (0.58–2.44) 0.85
 1.39 (0.66–2.91) 0.68
2 38 (49.4) 1.13 (0.67–1.90) 1.15 (0.67–1.96)
3
 27 (35.1)
 Referent
 Referent
Age group, y
<20 14 (18.2) 1.73 (0.92–3.24) 0.23
 1.63 (0.85–3.12) 0.33
20–34 54 (70.1) Referent Referent
≥35 9 (11.7) 1.09 (0.52–2.28) 1.07 (0.50–2.27)
Missing
 0
Time from onset to admission, h
≤24 37 (48.1) Referent 0.57
 Referent 0.57
>24 40 (51.9) 1.15 (0.72–1.83) 1.15 (0.71–1.86)
Missing
 0
Trimester of pregnancy
First 10 (13.0) Referent 0.23
 Referent 0.06
Second 25 (32.5) 1.44 (0.67–3.08) 1.50 (0.69–3.24)
Third 41 (53.2) 1.84 (0.90–3.76) 2.28 (1.09–4.76)
Missing
 1 (1.3)
Dehydration level
None 20 (26.0) Referent 0.03
 Referent 0.09
Moderate 45 (58.4) 2.08 (1.20–3.61) 1.89 (1.07–3.33)
Severe 12 (15.6) 1.88 (0.89–3.98) 1.56 (0.71–3.41)
Missing
 0
Vomiting
Yes 63 (81.8) 2.10 (1.15–3.82) 0.02 2.05 (1.08–3.90) 0.03
No 14 (18.2) Referent Referent
Missing 0

*Of 836 women with a viable fetus at admission. 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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