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Twenty four (5 .1%) sUbj ects were admitted to the lying i n
ward for various i ndications. The r emain i ng 448 were
discharged routinely wi t hin 12 t o 24 ho ur s a f t e r de livery,
a nd t he y wer e scheduled for follow-up morb idity assessment at
the special s t ud y clinic.
5 .1: BASELINE CHARACTERISTICS OF RECRUITED SUBJECTS
The baseline characteristics, i nc luding the 50 010 ­
demographic features , pregnancy and risk factors, an tenatal
ca re, and the l ab ou r outcomes of t he of the 47 2 recruited
subj ects t o the study are presented in t his section .
I: The socio-demographic characteristic s
AGE: Th e a ges o f study ;u tlj e c t s ranged fro m 15 to 48 years
wi th a mea n age of 25 .4 years (standard deviation (SO) :t 5 .9
yrs) . An obse rved feat u re in the age distributi o n, which is
not evident i n FIG . 2 . 1 o f age distribution p resent ed below,
was t he t enden cy f o r SUbjects t o r ou nd off the i r ages t o t he
ne u r r.s t fifth year. Fo r e xample, person o f a g e s 23 a nd 2 4
rounded off to 25 ; the s e of 29 years r ou nd e d off t o 30 y e ars,