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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Early Hum Dev. 2013 Jan 27;89(8):525–529. doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2013.01.004

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of infants in the massage therapy study

Characteristic MT
Control*
n (%) n (%)
Sex
 Female 6 (46) 7 (54)
 Male 4 (50) 4 (50)
Ethnicity
 Hispanic 6 (40) 4 (60)
 White non-Hispanic 4 (36) 7 (64)
Group Mean (SD) Group Mean (SD)
Postmenstrual Age (weeks) 31.4 (0.8) 30.9 (0.7)
Birth Weight (g) 1588.7 (149.4) 1553.2 (332.8)

Note: MT = massage therapy.

*

no significant differences between groups on demographic variables by t-test for continuous variables and chi square for nominal variables.