Table 1.

Clinical and biological characteristics of the newborns

Characteristics	n = 30
Gestational Age, weeks	31.21 (2.1)
Weight at birth, grams	1407.3 (432.1)
Apgar at 5 mins of life, Md (min-max)	9 (7–10)
Corrected age on first reading (0h), weeks	34.6 (1.6)
Time elapsing between being discharged from the KU and evaluation at TEA, days	21.52 (10.9)

The mean (SD) is given for continuous variables; category variables are given in terms of absolute frequencies and percentages; and ordinal variables (Apgar) in terms of the median (min-max).

Abbreviations: TEA, Term Equivalent Age; KU, Kangaroo Unit.