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Maternal height and shoe size as predictors of pelvic disproportion: an assessment
Author(s) -
FRAME SUE,
MOORE JUDY,
PETERS ALLISON,
HALL DAVID
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1985.tb04869.x
Subject(s) - pelvimetry , medicine , logistic regression , cephalopelvic disproportion , caesarean section , obstetrics , pregnancy , pelvis , surgery , biology , genetics
Summary. A total of 351 women who gave birth in the Paddington and North Kensington Health District were studied in order to establish a factual basis for recording height and shoe size as indicators of pelvic adequacy. Because only 19 women had radiological pelvimetry assessment, type of delivery and length of labour were used as proxy measures of disproportion. Of the 57 women with a shoe size <4½, 21% were delivered by caesarean section compared with 10% of the group with shoe size between 4½ and 6 and only 1% of the group with shoe size 6½. Similar relations with height were not generally found. The data were further examined using logistic regression models of the expected percentages of mothers having an adverse delivery. The models confirmed and extended the more simple analysis.