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Table 2.

Patients’ basic clinical characteristics

	VAP n = 21 patients	No-VAP n = 5 patients	p
Gestational age (weeks^+days) *	25⁺² (2.8)	24 ^+ 2 (1.33)	0.41
Female gender n (%)	7 (33%)	4 (80%)	0.07
Birth weight (grams) *	785 (320)	560 (110)	0.67
Complete course of antenatal steroids n (%)	16 (73%)	8 (80%)	0.96

*mean (standard deviation)

n number, VAP ventilator-associated pneumonia