Table 1.

Length, Weight and Head Circumference (HC) z-scores over time

	Steroid			Placebo
Visit	N	Mean (SD)	P-value compared to standard normal	N	Mean (SD)	P-value compared to standard normal	P-value comparing two arms
Length
Baseline	69	−0.72 (1.35)	< 0.001	67	−0.55 (1.16)	< 0.001	0.7528
1 Month	65	−1.29 (1.25)	< 0.001	63	−0.85 (1.29)	< 0.001	0.0241
2 Month	65	−1.51 (1.11)	< 0.001	64	−0.8 (1.12)	< 0.001	0.0004
3 Month	66	−1.28 (1.08)	< 0.001	62	−0.87 (1.02)	< 0.001	0.0365
6 Month	55	−1.28 (1.19)	< 0.001	54	−0.89 (1.19)	< 0.001	0.1721
1 Year	50	−1.13 (1.15)	< 0.001	42	−0.84 (1.19)	< 0.001	0.5651
18 Month	40	−0.69 (1.09)	0.0065	34	−0.71 (1.23)	0.0032	0.9043
2 Year	35	−0.54 (1.24)	0.0148	31	−0.15 (1.08)	0.0627	0.8255
Weight
Baseline	70	−0.83 (1.08)	< 0.001	70	−0.8 (1.06)	< 0.001	0.8752
2 Week	62	−1.42 (1.03)	< 0.001	62	−1.15 (0.93)	< 0.001	0.0847
1 Month	67	−1.47 (1.01)	< 0.001	67	−1.07 (0.88)	< 0.001	0.0015
2 Month	67	−1.48 (1.11)	< 0.001	65	−1.04 (0.9)	< 0.001	0.0025
3 Month	67	−1.57 (1.09)	< 0.001	64	−1.04 (0.94)	< 0.001	0.0435
6 Month	56	−1.74 (1.18)	< 0.001	55	−1.18 (1.26)	< 0.001	0.0256
1 Year	50	−1.41 (1.02)	< 0.001	45	−0.83 (1.47)	< 0.001	0.0319
18 Month	42	−0.75 (1.08)	< 0.001	35	−0.33 (1.57)	0.0822	0.0982
2 Year	35	−0.36 (1.03)	0.1442	31	0.08 (1.24)	> 0.25	0.4736
HC
Baseline	61	−1.1 (1.01)	< 0.001	61	−0.87 (1.12)	< 0.001	0.8167
1 Month	53	−1.66 (1.31)	< 0.001	58	−0.89 (1.01)	< 0.001	0.0013
2 Month	58	−1.55 (0.98)	< 0.001	54	−0.66 (1.34)	< 0.001	0.0009
3 Month	57	−1.4 (1.01)	< 0.001	58	−0.65 (1.41)	< 0.001	0.0006
6 Month	44	−0.74 (1.04)	0.0028	43	−0.65 (1.41)	0.0024	0.4246
1 Year	45	−0.2 (1.03)	0.1286	31	−0.04 (1.38)	> 0.25	0.4458
18 Month	34	0.1 (0.96)	> 0.25	29	0.18 (1.54)	0.2306	0.6064
2 Year	26	−0.11 (0.87)	> 0.25	22	0.35 (1.34)	0.0995	0.1790