Table 1.

Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of extremely low birth weight infants with and without cerebral palsy (CP).

Clinical variables	No CP (N=36)	CP (N=5)	P Value
Maternal age	26 (18, 38)	26 (21, 29)	0.576
Antenatal steroids given, N (%)	28 (77.8%)	1 (20.0%)	0.020
Gestational age at birth, weeks	25.5 (23.1, 30.1)	25.4 (23.0, 26.3)	0.510
Birth weight, grams	765 (468, 1000)	720 (600, 909)	0.647
Male, N (%)	22 (61.1%)	4 (80.0%)	0.636
5 min Apgar score ≤5, N (%)	11 (30.6%)	1 (20.0%)	1.000
Small for gestational age, N (%)	2 (5.6%)	0	0.594
Postnatal steroids, N (%)	8 (22.2%)	2 (40.0%)	0.580
Sepsis (culture positive), N (%)	10 (27.8%)	2 (40.0%)	0.620
Positive pressure ventilation duration prior to 36 weeks postmenstrual age, days	49 (3, 88)	67 (39, 90)	0.157
Postmenstrual age at MRI scan, weeks	38.5 (34.1, 43.9)	43.1 (38.1, 43.7)	0.038

All values are median (range) unless otherwise noted.