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Table 3 Opportunities for pre-pregnancy care in women who became pregnant in 2017–2018, and higher risk women who became pregnant in 2017–2018

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

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Among women who became pregnant

Women who became pregnant in 2017-2018a

Current smokers

Women overweight and obese

Women with mental health issues

Women with diabetes

Women with hypertension

Women with asthma

Women with actively managed asthmab

Women with epilepsy

Women with actively managed epilepsyb

±·â€‰= 14,326

±·â€‰= 3062

±·â€‰= 6061

±·â€‰= 4629

±·â€‰= 130

±·â€‰= 132

±·â€‰= 2570

±·â€‰= 908

±·â€‰= 195

±·â€‰= 87

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

Contact with GP services

 â¶ÄƒFace-to-face contact with aÌýgeneral practitioner (%)

79.7

81.5

82.1

88.1

92.3

83.3

83.6

89.8

83.6

92.0

 â¶ÄƒFace-to-face contact with aÌýnurse (%)

44.2

44.2

46.6

48.8

64.6

47.7

53.2

61.1

45.1

39.1

 â¶ÄƒFace-to-face contact with aÌýgeneral practitioner or aÌýnurse (%)

86.6

86.9

88.5

92.2

95.4

89.4

90.7

95.4

88.2

94.3

 â¶ÄƒAny contact with GP surgery including letter or phone call (%)

96.9

98.2

97.8

98.6

99.2

97.7

98.3

99.6

98.0

100.0

Cervical screening appointments

21.6

17.1

21.8

22.5

20.0

19.7

21.8

22.6

18.0

17.2

Active management of the condition

N/A

Entity type codesc

Entity type codesc

N/A

Blood sugar monitoring and Hb1Ac

Blood pressure check

Asthma review

Asthma review

Epilepsy review

Epilepsy review

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48.3

34.4

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68.5

80.3

21.4

51.9

5.6

10.3

  1. aStudy population consists of women eligible for the study who had a pregnancy starting in 2017 or 2018. Care shown in the column is related to care received in the year prior to the start of the index pregnancy
  2. 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)
  3. bEver diagnosed and treated in the last year
  4. cEntity type codes are additional data entered under the structured administrative data area in the GP software