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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Res. 2020 Nov 11;90(2):397–402. doi: 10.1038/s41390-020-01265-w

Table 1.

Demographics of study population

Opioid-exposed (n=29) Controls (n=42) p value
Male, n (%) 10 (34%) 20 (48%) 0.27
Gestational age at birth (weeks), mean (SD) 38.9 (1.1) 39.0 (0.72) 0.55
Birth weight (g), mean (SD) 3048 (299) 3274 (432) 0.02
Head circumference at birth (cm), mean (SD) 34.1 (1.3) 34.0 (1.4) 0.89
Postmenstrual age at scan (weeks), mean (SD) 44.7 (1.2) 44.0 (2.0) 0.07
Race/ethnicity 0.004
 Non-Hispanic White 24 20
 Non-Hispanic Black 4 20
 Non-Hispanic Asian 0 1
 Hispanic White 1 1
Maternal smoking, n (%) 25 (86%) 3 (7%) <0.001
Reported maternal alcohol use during pregnancy 1 (3%) 1 (2%) 1.0
Maternal Hepatitis C, n (%) 19 (66%) 0 (0%) <0.001
Maternal college degree, n (%) 5 (17%) 24 (57%) 0.001
Maternal methadone, n (%) 12 (41%) n/a n/a
Maternal buprenorphine, n (%) 15 (52%) n/a n/a
Maternal heroin and/or fentanyl, n (%) 12 (41%) n/a n/a
Neonatal abstinence syndrome requiring opioid treatment, n (%) 13 (45%) n/a n/a

Two-sided t-test was used to compare continuous variables and Fisher’s exact test was used to compare categorical variables.