Table 3. Feeding intolerance in preterm infants of mothers with preeclampsia and controls.
| Signals of feeding intolerance | PE (n=55) |
Control (n=55) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Days 1–3 | ||||
| None (%) | 22 (40) | 22 (40) | 1.000 | |
| Gastric residuals (%) | 29 (53) | 33 (60) | 0.564 | |
| Abdominal distension or vomiting (%) | 3 (5.5) | 0 (-) | 0.242 | |
| Feeding interruption (%) | 13 (24) | 7 (13) | 0.216 | |
| Days 4–7 | ||||
| None (%) | 24 (44) | 29 (53) | 0.445 | |
| Gastric residuals (%) | 22 (40) | 25 (45) | 0.700 | |
| Abdominal distension or vomiting (%) | 5 (9) | 0 (0) | 0.067 | |
| Feeding interruption (%) | 13 (24) | 6 (10) | 0.130 | |
| Days 8–28 | n=54 * | n=55 | ||
| None (%) | 33 (61) | 31 (56) | 0.757 | |
| Gastric residuals (%) | 17 (31) | 22 (40) | 0.467 | |
| Abdominal distension or vomiting (%) | 4 (7) | 3 (5) | 0.980 | |
| Feeding interruption (%) | 8 (15) | 7 (13) | 0.969 | |
| Necrotizing enterocolitis (%) | 2 (4) | 1 (2) | 0.987 | |
*
Death of an 18-day-old (grade 4 intraventricular hemorrhage with hydrocephalus). PE: preeclampsia.