. 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 4.

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 histologic chorioamnionitis

	With clinical chorioamnionitis (n = 16)	Without histologic chorioamnionitis (n = 34)	P-value
Cord blood
pH	6.99 ± 0.12	6.96 ± 0.15	0.41
Base Deficit (mM)	13.9 ± 6.5	14.4 ± 8.4	0.84
1st Neonatal
pH	7.13 ± 0.13	7.20 ± 0.10	0.03^a
Base Deficit (mM)	15.4 ± 12.2	13.7 ± 4.8	0.45
Difference
pH	0.14 ± 0.17	0.25 ± 0.16	0.03^a
Base Deficit (mM)	−1.6 ± 14.2	0.7 ± 7.2	0.45

Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation.

P < 0.05.