Influence of Physical Activity during Pregnancy on Type and Duration of Delivery, and Epidural Use: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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  Figure 1. Flow diagram of the selection process.

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  Figure 2. Risk of bias of the included studies [9,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79].

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  Figure 3. Effect of prenatal physical activity on cesarean delivery [9,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,43,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79].

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  Figure 4. Effect of prenatal physical activity on instrumental delivery [9,23,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,35,36,37,38,39,44,47,48,49,50,51,54,56,57,58,59,67,69,70,71,72,75,77].

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  Figure 5. Effect of prenatal physical activity on duration of the first stage of labor [29,36,38,44,46,50,52,57,58,65,67,69,71,73,78].

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  Figure 6. Effect of prenatal physical activity on duration of the second stage of labor [9,29,35,36,38,39,42,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,54,57,58,61,65,66,67,69,71,73,78].

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  Figure 7. Effect of prenatal physical activity on duration of the third stage of labor [29,36,38,57,58,65,69,71].

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  Figure 8. Effect of prenatal physical activity on epidural use [21,29,35,40,42,48,49,51,55,62,64,66,79].