Table 3.
Comparison of neonatal outcomes of small for gestational age and appropriate for gestational age preterm infants
| Variables | SGA (N=668) |
AGA (N=668) |
P value | OR | 95% CI | |
| Lower | Upper | |||||
| RDS | 257 (38.5) | 257 (38.5) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.80 | 1.25 |
| Apnoea | 66 (9.9) | 54 (8.0) | 0.251 | 1.25 | 0.86 | 1.82 |
| Hypoglycaemic | 191 (28.6) | 135 (20.2) | <0.001 | 1.58 | 1.23 | 2.04 |
| NEC | 35 (5.2) | 16 (2.4) | 0.007 | 2.25 | 1.24 | 4.11 |
| Polycythaemia | 43 (6.4) | 15 (2.2) | <0.001 | 3.00 | 1.65 | 5.45 |
| EOS | 275 (41.2) | 271 (40.6) | 0.824 | 1.03 | 0.82 | 1.28 |
| LOS | 14 (2.1) | 4 (0.6) | 0.018 | 3.55 | 1.16 | 10.85 |
| Hyperbilirubinaemia | 196 | 221 | 0.140 | 0.84 | 0.67 | 1.06 |
| Perinatal asphyxia | 48 | 50 | 0.834 | 0.96 | 0.63 | 1.44 |
| Mortality | 51 (7.6) | 51 (7.6) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.67 | 1.50 |
| Length of hospital stay | ||||||
| <21 days | 564 (84.4) | 628 (94.0) | – | – | – | – |
| ≥21 days | 104 (15.6) | 40 (6.0) | <0.001 | 2.90 | 2.98 | 4.24 |
AGA, appropriate for gestational age; EOS, early onset neonatal sepsis; LOS, late-onset neonatal sepsis; NEC, necrotising enterocolitis; RDS, respiratory distress syndrome; SGA, small for gestational age.