Fig. 1: Published ammonia concentrations in newborn babies. | Pediatric Research

Fig. 1: Published ammonia concentrations in newborn babies.

From: Plasma ammonia concentrations in extremely low birthweight infants in the first week after birth: secondary analysis from the ProVIDe randomized clinical trial

Fig. 1

Plasma ammonia concentrations reported in previous publications and in our study (N = 322) for preterm (a) and term-born (b) babies 1958–2008, in order of lowest to highest mean concentrations. The x-axis label (a–v) indicates first author (below) and N = sample size. Preterm: a Usmani35, b Batshaw (SGA)46, c Batshaw (AGA)46, d Batshaw (1986)41, e Rivera (amino acids + glucose)39, f our study, g Rivera (glucose alone)39, h Yalcin43, i Sanchez15, j Shohat38, k Thomas (Travasol)6, l Blanco40, m Beddis3, n Seashore34, o Thomas6 (FreAmine II). Term: p Batshaw (AGA)46, q Rubaltelli (SGA)30, r Yalcin43, s Clemmens45, t Oberholzer46, u Rubaltelli (AGA)30, v Seashore34. show mean (dot) and whiskers show standard deviation, show mean and range and show range only. Dot size indicates size of the study, <20 participants, 20–50 participants, our study.

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