TABLE 7. Patient characteristics by treatment group.
| Characteristics |
Prophylactic doxycyclyne (n=827) |
Placebo (n=828) |
Lost to follow-up (n=158) |
p value* |
| Age (y) | 25.5** | 25.3 | 25.6 | 0.51 |
| Education (y) | 9.5 | 9.7 | 9.2 | 0.02 |
| Live Births | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 0.03 |
| Spontaneous abortions | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.78 |
| Coital frequency/week | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 0.48 |
* One-way analysis of variance on the three groups.
** Mean values
Source: Sinei et al. (20).