Table 3 Neonatal morbidities of the weighted population.

From: Exclusive human milk diet is associated with lower risk of motor function impairment at three years of corrected age

Variables

Non-EHMD (n = 1015)b

EHMD (n = 805)b

p valuea

Intraventricular hemorrhage, n (%)

Any grade

199 (19.6)

251 (31.2)

0.001

Grade 3/4

50 (4.9)

56 (6.9)

0.211

Indomethacin/ibuprofen treated, n (%)

65 (6.4)

108 (13.5)

<0.001

Necrotizing enterocolitis, n (%)

7 (0.7)

10 (1.2)

0.361

Spontaneous intestinal perforation, n (%)

20 (2.0)

12 (1.4)

0.569

Total days of IV antibiotics (day), mean [IQR]

3 [3, 8]

3 [2, 7]

0.587

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, n (%)

  

0.193

No

764 (75.3)

589 (73.3)

 

Grade 1

150 (14.8)

98 (12.1)

 

Grade 2

90 (8.8)

106 (13.1)

 

Grade 3

11 (1.1)

12 (1.5)

 

Grade 2/3 bronchopulmonary dysplasia, n (%)

101 (9.9)

118 (14.6)

0.039

Postnatal corticosteroids, n (%)

19 (1.8)

44 (5.5)

0.001

Retinopathy of prematurity ≥ stage 2, n (%)

151 (14.9)

100 (12.4)

0.309

Periventricular leukomalacia, n (%)

17 (1.7)

13 (1.6)

0.923

Hypotonia (M69.2), n (%)

33 (3.3)

24 (3.0)

0.836

Cerebral palsy (G80.X), n (%)

29 (2.9)

25 (3.1)

0.848

Specific developmental disorder of motor function (F82), n (%)

200 (19.7)

128 (15.9)

0.237

Any motor function impairment, n (%)

211 (20.8)

151 (18.8)

0.539

  1. EHMD exclusive human milk diet, IQR interquartile range.
  2. aChi-squared test for categorical variables, rank-sum test for non-parametric continuous variables.
  3. bCounts are rounded to the nearest integers.