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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Early Hum Dev. 2016 Aug 22;103:97–100. doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2016.08.003

Table 3.

Predictors of gastrostomy tube (G-tube) placement and growth velocity.

Predictors of G-tube placement Odds ratio P-value
Prenatal diagnosis 4.50 (0.98, 20.59) 0.05
ECMO 11.26 (1.92, 65.89) 0.01
Proton pump inhibitor 17.29 (3.98, 75.14) <0.001
Predictors of growth velocity Coefficient P-value
ECMO − 2.7 (− 7.3, 2.0) 0.26
G-tube − 6.5 (− 10.4, − 2.5) 0.002

ECMO: extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.