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Table 1 Characteristics of study population, and subset of women who became pregnant during follow up

From: Pre-pregnancy care in general practice in England: cross-sectional observational study using administrative routine health data

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All women of reproductive agea

Women who became pregnantb

Number (%)

Number (%)

±·â€‰= 193,578

±·â€‰= 14,326

Sociodemographic characteristics

 Age, mean (SD)

34.4 (8.8)

30.5 (5.8)

 â¶Äƒ< 20 yrs

9307 (4.8)

324 (2.3)

 â¶Äƒ20–24 yrs

23,910 (12.4)

2100 (14.7)

 â¶Äƒ25–29 yrs

28,988 (15.0)

3733 (26.1)

 â¶Äƒ30–34 yrs

31,435 (16.2)

4482 (31.3)

 â¶Äƒ35–39 yrs

33,722 (17.4)

2808 (19.6)

 â¶Äƒ40–44 yrs

35,067 (18.1)

775 (5.4)

 â¶Äƒ ≥  45 yrs

31,149 (16.1)

104 (0.7)

 Ethnic group

 â¶ÄƒWhite British

91,629 (68.8)

7235 (69.3)

 â¶ÄƒWhite other

18,968 (14.3)

1372 (13.1)

 â¶ÄƒM¾±³æ±ð»å

2227 (1.7)

187 (1.8)

 â¶ÄƒAsian or Asian british

10,062 (7.6)

877 (8.4)

 â¶ÄƒBlack or Black british

6383 (4.8)

514 (4.9)

 â¶ÄƒChinese or other

3847 (2.9)

255 (2.4)

 â¶ÄƒMissing

60,462 (31.2)

3886 (27.1)

 Practice IMD quintiles

 â¶Äƒ1 (least deprived)

33,966 (17.6)

2367 (16.5)

 â¶Äƒ2

36,158 (18.7)

2418 (16.9)

 â¶Äƒ3

37,700 (19.5)

2776 (19.4)

 â¶Äƒ4

30,445 (15.7)

2515 (17.6)

 â¶Äƒ5

55,309 (28.6)

4250 (29.7)

Health status and risk behaviours

 BMI (kg/m2), mean (SD)

26.4 (6.6)

26.0 (6.2)

 â¶Äƒ< 18.5

7,087 (4.1)

555 (4.3)

 â¶Äƒ18.5–24.9

80,015 (46.6)

6329 (48.9)

 â¶Äƒ25–29.9

44,171 (25.7)

3285 (25.4)

 â¶Äƒâ‰¥â€‰30

40,436 (23.6)

2776 (21.4)

 â¶ÄƒMissing

21,869 (11.3)

1381 (9.6)

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 â¶ÄƒNever smokers

104,803 (55.8)

7446 (52.8)

 â¶ÄƒFormer smokers

47,762 (25.4)

3608 (25.6)

 â¶ÄƒCurrent smokers

35,410 (18.8)

3062 (21.7)

 â¶ÄƒMissing

5603 (2.9)

210 (1.5)

Current health conditions

 â¶ÄƒDiabetes mellitus

3088 (1.6)

130 (0.9)

 â¶ÄƒHypertension

5509 (2.9)

132 (0.9)

 â¶ÄƒAsthma (ever diagnosed)

33,089 (17.1)

2570 (17.9)

 â¶Äƒ  Actively managed asthma (ever diagnosed + treated in the last year)

13,883 (7.2)

908 (6.3)

 â¶ÄƒEpilepsy (ever diagnosed)

2850 (1.5)

195 (1.4)

 â¶Äƒ  Actively managed epilepsy (ever diagnosed + treated in the last year)

1422 (0.7)

87 (0.6)

 â¶ÄƒCardiovascular disease (CVD)

667 (0.3)

18 (0.1)

 â¶ÄƒCommon mental disorders (depression and/or anxiety, ever diagnosed)

65,647 (33.9)

4629 (32.3)

 â¶Äƒ  Common mental disorders (depression and/or anxiety, recent)

29,251 (15.1)

2097 (14.6)

 â¶ÄƒPolycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

9224 (4.8)

837 (5.8)

  1. aStudy population consists of all women with research quality data who were registered at an English GP and were aged 18–48 on 01/01/2017, had a year of prior registration and were consent to hospital data linkage. Characteristics and conditions are shown as of 01 Jan 2017
  2. bStudy population consists of women eligible for the study who had a pregnancy which started in 2017 or 2018. Characteristics and conditions are shown as at the start of the index pregnancy
  3. 16,453 pregnancies started between 2017–2018, for women who had more than one pregnancy during this period, only the first was kept (n = 14,326, 87.1% of all pregnancies starting in 2017–2018)
  4. Proportions are presented as the % of non-missing, unless in italics, where % is of all women