Magpie Trial in the UK: methods and additional data for women and children at 2 years following pregnancy complicated by pre-eclampsia

Table 2 Comparison of responses for 580 children for whom there were questionnaires from both general practitioner and family

	General practitioner		Family
	n = 580 (%)		n = 580 (%)
Visit/s to general practitioner
Since birth	569	(98)
In 6 months preceding questionnaire			295	(51)
Medication prescribed by general practitioner*	196	(34)	154	(27)
Admission to hospital	168	(30)	221	(38)
Reasons:
Respiratory infection	54		56
Minor surgery	35		38
Gastro-enteritis	33		24
Other	46		103
*Number of admissions to hospital/year*
Assessed at ≤ 24 months**
Median {IQR}	0.7 {0.6–1.2}		0.5 {0.5–1.0}
Range	1–3		1–3
Assessed at > 24 months***
Median {IQR}	0.4 {0.4–0.8}		0.4 {0.3–0.6}
Range	1–4		1–4
not known number of times admitted	28		2

*medications (vitamin/mineral supplement, skin treatment, asthma treatment, gastro-intestinal/laxative, antibiotics)
** general practitioner n = 328, children n = 253
*** general practitioner n = 252, children n = 327

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