Table 5.
Postnatal Characteristics and Neurologic Burden Relative to Psychiatric Burden
| Number of Psychiatric Disorder | p | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 n=446 |
1 n=104 |
2 n=64 |
≥3 n=55 |
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| Postnatal characteristics | Column Percents n (%) | |||||
| Echolucent lesion on cranial ultrasound studies | Yes | 31 (7) | 5 (5) | 7 (11) | 1 (2) | 0.2 |
| No | 415 (93) | 99 (95) | 57 (89) | 54 (98) | ||
| Ventriculomegaly on cranial ultrasound studies | Yes | 49 (11) | 8 (8) | 6 (9) | 4 (7) | 0.664 |
| No | 397 (89) | 96 (92) | 58 (91) | 51 (93) | ||
| Necrotizing enterocolitis (Bell stage 3b) | Yes | 36 (8) | 7 (7) | 4 (6) | 4 (7) | 0.935 |
| No | 410 (92) | 97 (93) | 60 (94) | 51 (93) | ||
| Retinopathy of prematurity (prethreshold) | Yes | 67 (15) | 8 (8) | 11 (17) | 6 (11) | 0.196 |
| No | 374 (84) | 94 (90) | 52 (81) | 47 (85) | ||
| Bronchopulmonary dysplasia | Yes | 222 (50) | 62 (60) | 38 (59) | 32 (58) | 0.158 |
| No | 221 (50) | 42 (40) | 26 (40) | 22 (40) | ||
| Neurologic Burden46 | ||||||
| Normal or mildly impaired cognition and no CP, ASD, epilepsy | 304 (68) | 65 (63) | 32 (50) | 29 (53) | 0.004a | |
| Normal or mildly impaired cognition with at least one of following: CP, ASD, epilepsy | 32 (7) | 13 (10) | 7 (11) | 3 (5) | ||
| Moderate or severe cognitive impairment J | 80 (18) | 19 (18) | 20 (31) | 19 (35) | ||
Note: CP=Cerebral Palsy; ASD=Autism Spectrum Disorders
a
Significant after Bonferroni correction