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Published in final edited form as: J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2011 Sep;70(9):799–810. doi: 10.1097/NEN.0b013e31822c09bc

Table 2.

Comparison of Clinicopathologic Features between SIDS Cases and Acutely ill and Chronically ill Controls in the Stage 2 Dataset

	GABA_A Receptor Binding Study				GABA_Aα3 Western Blot Study
	SIDS (n=28)	Acute Controls (n=5)	Chronic Illness (n = 3)	p value^*	SIDS (n=25)	Acute Controls (n=6)	Chronic Illness (n=3)	p value^*
Postconceptional Age (weeks)	51.7±8.3	48.3±11.4	58.3±15.7	0.35	53.9±8.4	52.3±0.9	58.3±15.7	0.67
Gestational Age (weeks)	37.6±3.7	39.4±1.5	39.3±16.0	0.40	37.0±6.5	39.0±0.0	39.3±1.2	0.65
Postnatal Age (weeks)	14.1±8.8	8.9±10.5	19.0±14.9	0.34	15.7±9.2	13.4±11.1	19.0±14.9	0.72
Postmortem Interval (hours)	17.9±.8	13.8±3.6	20.2±2.3	0.11	17.1±5.2	12.3±4.0	20.2±2.3	0.06
Male gender:	13 (46%)	3 (67%)	2 (67%)	0.73	15 (60%)	(50%)	2 (67%)	0.86

Mean ± SD or percent,

t-tests were used to compare age and postmortem interval between SIDS cases and controls. Fisher exact tests were used to compare sex between the SIDS cases and controls.