Table 5.
Toddlers Born at ELBW by BRS Clinical Categories at 18 Months and MDI and PDI Clinical Categories at 18 and 30 Months
| Variable | MDI at 30 months, n |
Variable | PDI at 30 months, n |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < 70 | 70–84 | ≥85 | < 70 | 70–84 | ≥85 | ||
| MDI at 18 months, < 70 | PDI at 18 months, < 70 | ||||||
| BRS total at 18 months | BRS total at 18 months | ||||||
| Non-Optimal | 27 | 8 | 2 | Non-Optimal | 22 | 4 | 1 |
| Questionable | 22 | 10 | 3 | Questionable | 17 | 2 | 0 |
| Normal | 34 | 28 | 14 | Normal | 24 | 7 | 7 |
| MDI at 18 monthsM, 70–84 | PDI at 18 months, 70–84 | ||||||
| BRS total at 18 months | BRS total at 18 months | ||||||
| Non-Optimal | 0 | 2 | 4 | Non-Optimal | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Questionable | 7 | 14 | 14 | Questionable | 16 | 9 | 10 |
| Normal | 12 | 53 | 64 | Normal | 15 | 30 | 42 |
| MDI at 18 months, ≥ 85 | PDI at 18 months, ≥ 85 | ||||||
| BRS total at 18 months | BRS total at 18 months | ||||||
| Non-Optimal | 0 | 1 | 0 | Non-Optimal | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Questionable | 1 | 2 | 6 | Questionable | 6 | 6 | 13 |
| Normal | 7 | 37 | 167 | Normal | 25 | 36 | 230 |
Note: N = 539. Regardless of 18-month MDI category, toddlers with a Normal rather than a Questionable or Non-optimal BRS total score at 18 months obtained a more optimal MDI categorization at 30 months. A similar pattern was evident for PDI scores.