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Table 1 Subject characteristic for those enrolled in study

From: Pro-inflammatory cerebrospinal fluid profile of neonates with intraventricular hemorrhage: clinical relevance and contrast with CNS infection

 

Control (n = 81)

IVH1/2 (n = 29)

IVH3/4 (n = 13)

PHH (n = 15)

BM (n = 20)

VM (n = 27)

All patients (n = 185)

Birth EGA (weeks)

37.1 ± 3.3

33.4 ± 5.3

27.6 ± 5.7

26.6 ± 3.1

36.6 ± 4.5

37.2 ± 3

35 ± 5.3

Sample EGA (weeks)

40.4 ± 2.2

35.8 ± 4.6

32.4 ± 6.1

29.4 ± 2.8

38.9 ± 4.3

40.8 ± 1.7

38. ± 4.9

Gender (% male)

54.3

69.0

61.5

73.3

45.0

59.2

58.4

Postnatal steroids (%)

2.5

17.2

0.00

25.0

5.0

0.0

8.1

PROM (%)

9.3

35

23

40

15.38

4.34

13.51

Chorioamnionitis (%)

7.4

10.34

23.07

6.66

5

0

7.56

Lung disease (%)

9.87

27.58

23.07

73.33

35

0

20

Sepsis (%)

3.75

34.48

46.15

33.33

20

0

15.13

  1. Data shown as mean ± standard deviation
  2. Birth EGA statistically significant comparisons: control vs IVH1/2 p = 0.0015, vs IVH3/4 p < 0.0001, vs PHH p < 0.0001; IVH1/2 vs IVH3/4 p < 0.0001, vs PHH p < 0.0001, vs VM p = 0.0154; IVH3/4 vs BM p < 0.0001, vs VM p < 0.0001; PHH vs BM p < 0.0001, vs VM p < 0.0001. Sample EGA statistically significant comparison: control vs IVH1/2 p < 0.0001, vs IVH3/4 p < 0.0001, vs PHH p < 0.0001; IVH1/2 vs IVH3/4 p = 0.0308, vs PHH p < 0.0001, vs BM p = 0.0184, vs VM p < 0.0001; IVH3/4 vs BM p = 0.0004, vs VM p < 0.0001; PHH vs BM p < 0.0001, vs VM p < 0.0001. PROM was statistically different between control vs IVH1/2 p = 0.011, control vs PHH p = 0.008, IVH1/2 vs VM p = 0.0165, and PHH vs VM p = 0.0096. The % of patients with chorioamnionitis was similar except of IVH3/4 vs VM p = 0.0289. Lung disease: control vs IVH1/2 p = 0.0306, control vs PHH p < 0.0001, control vs BM p = 0.0101, IVH1/2 vs PHH p = 0.0089; IVH1/2 vs BM p = 0.0046; IVH3/4 vs PHH p = 0.0213; IVH3/4 vs VM p = 0.0289; PHH vs BM p = 0.0409, PHH vs VM p < 0.0001, BM vs VM p = 0.0012. Sepsis: control vs IVH1/2 p < 0.0001, vs IVH3/4 p = 0.0002, vs PHH p = 0.0022, vs BM p = 0.028; IVH1/2 vs VM p = 0.0009; IVH3/4 vs VM p = 0.0005; PHH vs VM p = 0.004; BM vs VM p = 0.0297