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Obstetrical, delivery, and neonatal outcomes were compared between deliveries with thin meconium (thin meconium group) to deliveries with clear amniotic fluid (control group). Included in the study were 31,536 deliveries. Among them 1946 (6.2%) were in the thin meconium group and 29,590 (93.8%) were controls. Meconium aspiration syndrome was diagnosed in eight neonates in the thin meconium group and in none of the controls (0.41%, p &lt; 0.001). In multivariate logistic regression analysis, the following adverse outcomes were found to be independently associated with increased odds ratio (OR) for thin meconium: intrapartum fever (OR 1.37, 95% CI 1.1\u20131.7), instrumental delivery (OR 1.26, 95% CI 1.09\u20131.46), cesarean delivery for non-reassuring fetal heart rate (OR 2.0, 95% CI 1.68\u20132.46), and respiratory distress requiring mechanical ventilation (OR 2.06, 95% CI 1.19\u20133.56). 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