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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2020 Apr 15;44(4):919–938. doi: 10.1111/acer.14314

Table 3.

Demographic, Physical Growth, Cardinal FAS Features, Other Minor Anomalies, and Total Dysmorphology Scores from a Midwestern City: 2010–2014

Children with FAS
(n=11)
Children with PFAS
(n=23)
Children with ARND
(n=10)
Randomly-Selected Control Children
(n=521)
Test-score p-value
Growth and Cardinal Features
Sex (% Male) 36.4 60.9 40.0 52.6 χ2=2.420 .490
Current Age (in months) – Mean (SD) 82.4 (6.5) 84.7 (4.1) 82.3 (4.9) 81.8 (4.8) F=2.792 .040E
Height Percentile – Mean (SD) 7.0 (6.3) 32.3 (28.3) 56.5 (35.6) 60.3 (27.6) F=20.514 <.001A,B,C,E
Weight Percentile – Mean (SD) 13.7 (11.5) 34.2 (25.0) 42.3 (31.0) 61.2 (27.0) F=19.476 <.001A,C,E
Child’s BMI Percentage – Mean (SD) 40.3 (34.7) 44.6 (28.6) 28.6 (27.5) 58.6 (27.7) F=6.854 <.001F
Occipitofrontal Circumference (OFC) Percentile – Mean (SD) 3.1 (3.1) 38.7 (24.9) 32.4 (35.3) 65.0 (27.3) F=29.051 <.001A,C,E
 OFC centile ≤3rd centile 63.6 13.0 30.0 0.8 χ2=180.414 <.001
 OFC centile ≤10th centile 100.0 21.7 40.0 4.8 χ2=154.190 <.001
Palpebral Fissure Length (PFL) Percentile – Mean (SD) 10.9 (14.4) 12.2 (12.5) 22.3 (11.5) 29.1 (16.0) F=13.365 <.001C,E
 PFL centile ≤3rd centile 36.4 39.1 10.0 5.4 χ2=50.268 <.001
 PFL centile ≤10th centile 72.7 56.5 10.0 10.7 χ2=71.575 <.001
Smooth Philtrum (% Yes) 90.9 87.0 30.0 14.0 χ2=116.289 <.001
Narrow Vermilion (% Yes) 81.8 82.6 10.0 17.9 χ2=79.246 <.001
Other Minor Anomalies
Maxillary Arc (in cm) – Mean (SD) 23.2 (1.2) 24.1 (.8) 24.2 (1.2) 24.8 (1.0) F=12.326 <.001C,E
Mandibular Arc (in cm) – Mean (SD) 23.7 (1.3) 25.1 (.8) 25.0 (1.3) 25.9 (1.2) F=14.703 <.001A,C,E
Hypoplastic midface (% Yes) 54.5 47.8 50.0 25.0 χ2=13.116 .004
Camptodactyly (% Yes) 18.2 0.0 10.0 2.3 χ2=13.226 .004
Other aberrant palmar creases (% Yes) 9.1 17.4 10.0 2.1 χ2=20.810 <.001
Heart malformations (% Yes) 0.0 4.3 0.0 0.2 χ2=10.863 .012
Total Dysmorphology Score
– Mean (SD)
16.7 (3.0) 11.8 (3.6) 6.1 (4.3) 4.2 (2.9) F=111.075 <.001A,B,C,D,E

Post-hoc significant difference between:

A.

FAS & PFAS;

B.

FAS & ARND;

C.

FAS & Controls;

D.

PFAS & ARND;

E.

PFAS & Controls;

F.

ARND & Controls.

Bonferroni adjusted significance level for Growth and Cardinal Features = 0.005; for other minor anomalies = 0.007