Table 7 Number of valid cervicovaginal fluid samples provide by women at high and low risk of spontaneous preterm birth for each host response peptide collected at each gestational category.

From: Cervicovaginal natural antimicrobial expression in pregnancy and association with spontaneous preterm birth

Risk status

Host response peptide

Gestation at sampling (weeks+days)

Total

Category 1

10–13+6

Category 2

14–15+6

Category 3

1619+6

Category 4

20–24+0

High risk women

Elafin

241

265

313

297

1,116

Cathelicidin

215

234

268

259

976

HNE

233

251

317

288

1,089

Low risk women

Elafin

193

9

18

185

405

HNE

194

10

18

184

406

  1. These figures include all samples which may have been taken more than once in each gestational sampling window.