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Table 1 Maternal age at delivery and gestational age at time of NIPS, stratified by NIPS results

From: Positive predictive value of non-invasive prenatal screening for fetal chromosome disorders using cell-free DNA in maternal serum: independent clinical experience of a tertiary referral center

   

Median

Mean

SD

P-valuesa

Maternal age (years)

I.

Abnormal concordant

39.00

36.97

6.13

I vs. III

0.009**

II.

Abnormal discordant

34.00

33.08

4.70

I vs. II

0.034*

III.

Normal concordant

36.00

34.79

5.16

II vs. III

0.161

Gestational age (weeks)

I.

Abnormal concordant

13.10

14.94

3.74

I vs. III

0.156

II.

Abnormal discordant

14.10

15.76

4.17

I vs. II

0.722

III.

Normal concordant

13.25

15.64

3.97

II vs. III

0.627

  1. aP-values calculated using Wilcoxon rank sum test
  2. *P < 0.05
  3. **P < 0.01