Table 5 Brain volumes and diffusion tensor imaging between donor human milk and formula-fed infants.
From: Donor human milk and structural brain development in very preterm infants
Brain Volumes | Diffusion Tensor Imaging | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean Diffusivity (x10−3 mm2/second) | Fractional Anisotropy | ||||||
Brain region | β (95% CI)a | p | Brain Region | β (95% CI)a | p | β (95% CI)a | p |
Total Brain Volume | 10.2 (–7.0, 27.3) | 0.24 | Corpus Callosum Genu Splenium | –0.17 (–0.25, –0.08) –0.15 (–0.26, –0.04) | <0.001* 0.010* | (–0.03, 0.06) 0.03 (–0.02, 0.07) | 0.50 0.26 |
Cortical Gray Matter | 4.9 (–2.7, 12.4) | 0.20 | |||||
White Matter | 3.5 (–4.8, 11.8) | 0.40 | Posterior Limb of Internal Capsule Right Left | –0.08 (–0.12, –0.05) –0.09 (–0.13, –0.05) | <0.001* <0.001* | (0.00, 0.05) 0.02 (-0.01, 0.04) | 0.07 0.16 |
Deep Gray Matter | 0.7 (–0.7, 2.0) | 0.34 | |||||
Amygdala-Hippocampus | 0.1 (–0.1, 0.2) | 0.44 | |||||
Cerebellum | 1.0 (–0.8, 2.7) | 0.29 | Brainstem - Pons Right Left | –0.06 (–0.1, –0.03) –0.06 (–0.09, –0.03) | <0.001* <0.001* | –0.04 (–0.08, –0.01) –0.04 (–0.07, –0.01) | 0.018* 0.025 |
Brainstem | 0.2 (–0.1, 0.4) | 0.12 | |||||
