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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 12.
Published in final edited form as: Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2016 Jul 30;57:79–86. doi: 10.1016/j.ntt.2016.07.002

Table 1.

Child demographics.

Cocaine (n = 189)
Non-cocaine (n = 183)
p
M SD M SD
Gestational age 37.81 2.86 38.46 2.86 0.03
Hobel neonatal risk score 7.49 16.55 5.83 15.80 0.32
Birth length (cm)* 47.32 3.97 49.14 3.73 <0.0001
Head circumference (cm)* 32.29 2.15 33.48 2.38 <0.0001
Birth weight (grams)* 2712 649 3106 700 <0.0001
Male, n (%) 85 44.97 89 48.63 0.48
African-American, n (%) 155 82.01 147 80.33 0.68
Head circumference < 10th%, n (%) 28 15.05 8 4.42 0.0006
Adopted/foster care at 12 years, n (%) 45 26.63 7 4.14 <0.0001
Adopted/foster care at 15 years, n (%) 47 27.01 6 3.49 <0.0001
2 years and/or 4 years lead levela 7.00 4.13 8.02 4.60 0.04
IQ at 11 years 81.39 11.67 83.82 14.41 0.07
Violence exposure at 12 years 0.63 0.76 0.57 0.80 0.50
Early (age ≤ 12) drug use, n (%) 61 33.15 57 32.20 0.85
Age at assessment 12 years 12.07 0.27 12.11 0.24 0.18
Age at assessment 15 years 15.67 0.24 15.68 0.29 0.77
*

p-value is adjusted for prematurity.

a

Sub-sample size of lead is 290, included 147 CE and 143 NCE.