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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 17.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Res. 2020 May 26:10.1038/s41390-020-0977-4. doi: 10.1038/s41390-020-0977-4

Table 2.

Median kidney filtration onset delay, filtration half-life, and steady state creatinine level with CI by gestational age group

GA groups in
weeks
Median (95% CI)
filtration onset delay
in days
Median (95% CI)
filtration half-life in
days
Median (95% CI)
steady state
creatinine in mg/dl
1 (22 < GA ≤ 27) 4.26 (3.71, 4.89)* 8.69 (7.99, 9.46)** 0.28 (0.27, 0.29)
2 (27 < GA ≤ 32) 1.89 (1.76, 2.02) 6.26 (5.69, 6.89)** 0.29 (0.27, 0.31)
3 (32 < GA ≤ 37) 1.71 (1.57, 1.86) 4.38 (3.91, 4.91)** 0.26 (0.25, 0.27)
4 (37 < GA ≤ 42) 1.64 (1.53, 1.75) 4.05 (3.74, 4.40) 0.27 (0.26, 0.28)
*

Group 1 statistically different than Groups 2,3, and 4 (p<0.001)

**

Groups 1, 2, and 3 are significantly different from each other (p<0.001)

Group 4 is not significantly different from Group 3, but is from Groups 1 and 2 (p<0.001)