Table 6

Spontaneous abortion rate for Arkansas and study population


Live Births
Spontaneous Abortions
Rate per 1000 Live Births
p value (1)

State of Arkansas (2)
36,356
930
25.58
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All mothers (3)




     Pregnancy 1
240
31
129.16
< 0.0001
     Pregnancy 2
218
19
87.15
< 0.0001
     Pregnancy 3
124
23
185.48
< 0.0001
     Pregnancy 4
71
11
154.90
< 0.0001

Notes: (1)X-square p values calculated using data for each pregnancy and state of Arkansas data. (2) Data are for year 1996; spontaneous abortions defined as < 20 weeks. (3) For comparison purposes, study population rates calculated as if all pregnancy outcomes for a particular pregnancy order occurred in one year. Cell frequencies for pregnancy 5 and greater were too small for analysis.

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