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. 2020 Apr 15;105(3):279–284. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2019-316871

Table 3.

Comparison of glucose control, insulin delivery and nutritional intake during the postintervention period (72–160 hours postbirth)

Closed loop
(n=10)
Control
(n=10)
P value
Time spent with sensor glucose level (%)
4.0–8.0 mmol/L 64 (39-90) 42 (30-55) 0.053
2.6–10 mmol/L 95 (79-97) 78 (61-97) 0.243
>10 mmol/L 3 (1-21) 22 (3-36) 0.156
<2.6 mmol/L 0.0 (0.0-0.8) 0.0 (0.0-0.2) 0.720
Mean sensor glucose (mmol/L) 7.0 (6.8-8.5) 8.3 (7.3-9.2) 0.182
SD of sensor glucose (mmol/L) 1.7 (1.5-2.1) 1.7 (1.3-2.8) 0.780
Episodes of blood glucose <2.6 mmol/L 1 0 1.000
Insulin (U/kg/hour) 0.02 (0.00-0.04) 0.03 (0.00-0.05) 0.356
Nutritional intake
 Dextrose (mg/kg/min) 9.4 (7.0-10.6) 8.7 (5.4-10.9) 0.549
 Protein (g/kg/day) 3.7 (2.7-4.3) 3.8 (2.9-4.4) 0.968
 Lipid (g/kg/day) 2.0 (1.5-2.9) 1.8 (1.2-2.8) 0.611
 Oral milk intake (mL/kg/day) 4.4 (3.5-11.5) 5.0 (0.5-13.0) 0.720

Data are presented as median (IQR).