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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2013 May 1;170(5):485–493. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.11121873

Table 2.

Infant demographic and clinical measures.

Exposure during pregnancy P values


Measure All
(N=178)
None
(N=100)
SSRI
(N=47)
MDD
(N=31)
Overall SSRI v
None
MDD v
None
MDD v
SSRI
Weeks gestation at delivery <37 17 (9.6) 5 (5.0) 9 (19.1) 3 (9.7) 0.025 0.013* 0.393 0.344
Sex 0.006 0.002* 0.551 0.057
  Male 99 (55.6) 64 (64.0) 17 (36.2) 18 (58.1)
  Female 79 (44.4) 36 (36.0) 30 (63.8) 13 (41.9)
Birth weight (g) 3470 ± 577 3563 ± 531 3343 ± 626 3366 ± 605 0.052
Birth length (cm) 51.1 ± 2.8 51.5 ± 2.7 50.2 ± 3.0 51.1 ± 2.7 0.038 0.011* 0.529 0.190
Birth head circumference (cm) 34.6 ± 1.7 34.7 ± 1.7 34.3 ± 1.8 34.6 ± 1.6 0.354
Ever breastfed 138 (77.5) 83 (83.0) 35 (74.5) 20 (64.5) 0.083
*

Significant after Bonferroni correction.