. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Perinatol. 2016 Jan 21;36(6):448–452. doi: 10.1038/jp.2015.221

Table 3.

A comparison of pH and base deficit between umbilical arterial blood at delivery and the initial neonatal arterial gas after delivery in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy treated with whole-body hypothermia based on the presence of clinical chorioamnionitis

	With clinical chorioamnionitis (n = 10)	Without clinical chorioamnionitis (n = 40)	P-value
Cord blood
pH	6.97 ± 0.14	7.01 ± 0.12	0.33
Base Deficit (mM)	13.4 ± 6.9	14.4 ± 8.1	0.73
1st Neonatal gas
pH	7.14 ± 0.16	7.20 ± 0.10	0.18
Base Deficit (mM)	19.4 ± 8.2	12.95 ± 7.3	0.02^a
Difference
pH	0.14 ± 0.20	0.24 ± 0.16	0.09
Base Deficit (mM)	5.9 ± 9.8	−1.5 ± 9.5	0.03^a

Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation.

P < 0.05.