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Table 1 Maternal and neonatal characteristics of cases and controls

From: Intrapartum factors associated with neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy: a case-controlled study

Characteristics

Cases

(N = 26)

Controls

(N = 104)

P a

Maternal

 Age (years), mean (SD)

26.7 (3.8)

26.6 (3.7)

0.97

 BMI (kg/m2), mean (SD)

25.7 (5.8)

26.1 (6.0)

0.77

 Medicaid insurance, N (%)

6 (23.1%)

34 (32.7%)

0.34

 Race, N (%)

  

0.08

  Caucasian

18 (69.2)

89 (85.6)

 

  Black or African American

5 (19.2)

4 (3.8)

 

  Asian

2 (7.7)

6 (5.8)

 

  Other

1 (3.8)

3 (2.9)

 

  Unknown

0 (0.0)

2 (1.9)

 

 Nulliparous, N (%)

14 (53.8)

41 (39.4)

0.18

Neonatal

 Male sex, N (%)

18 (69.2)

63 (60.6)

0.42

 Gestational age (weeks), median (IQR)

39 (38, 40)

39 (38, 40)

0.94

 Birth weight (grams), mean (SD)

3514 (596)

3448 (530)

0.58

  1. Abbreviations: BMI body mass index, IQR interquartile range, SD standard deviation
  2. aComparisons evaluated using the chi-square for sex, nulliparous and Medicaid insurance, the Wilcoxon rank-sum test for gestational age, the two-sample t-test for birth weight, maternal age and BMI, and the Fisher’s exact test for maternal race