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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Horm Res Paediatr. 2023 Feb 1;96(5):509–517. doi: 10.1159/000529403

Table 1.

Study Participant Characteristics for CAH and Control Infants

CAH (n = 16) Control (n = 14) Group Difference, p-value
Age at MRI (weeks)
 Gestational Age 38.2 ± 1.74 38.5 ± 1.8 0.83a
 Post-conceptional Age 42.2 ± 3.0 42.5 ± 2.4 0.88a
Biological sex (n) Female, 8 Male, 8 Female, 5 Male, 9 0.68b
Hispanic/ Latino (n; %) 6; 37.5% 7; 50% 0.79b
Race (n; %)
 White 14; 87.5% 5; 35.7% 0.001b
 Asian 2; 12.5% 2; 14.3%
CAH Form (n)
 Salt-wasting 15 - -
 Simple-virilizing 1
Glucocorticoid dose (mg/m2/day) 35.2 ± 16.4 - -
Fludrocortisone dose (mg/day) 0.12 ± 0.04
NaCl dose (mEq/day) 4.27 ± 0.70
CAH Analytes
 Newborn screen 17-OHP (ng/dL) 29080.4 ± 14325.2 - -
 Newborn screen 17-OHP [nmol/L] [881.1 ± 434.1]
 Confirmatory serum 17-OHP (ng/dL) 16719.8 ± 11164.5
 Confirmatory serum 17-OHP [nmol/L] [506.6 ± 338.3]
 Highest newborn 17-OHP (ng/dL) 28861.9 ± 13996.9
 Highest newborn 17-OHP [nmol/L] [874.5 ± 424.1]
 Confirmatory serum testosterone (ng/dL) 289.1 ± 277.7
 Confirmatory serum testosterone [nmol/L] [10.03 ± 9.6]
 Confirmatory serum androstenedione (ng/dL) 3674.6 ± 3699.8
 Confirmatory serum androstenedione [nmol/L] [128.2 ± 129.1]
 Plasma Renin Activity (ng/mL/hr and μg/L/hr) 50.1 ± 75.4

Mean ± SD

a

Wilcoxon sign-rank test;

b

Chi-square test