Table 3.
Effect of small for gestational age on length of hospital stay among respiratory distress.
| Gestational Age | Length of stay |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | median | IQR | IRRa | 95% CI |
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| FT-AGA (reference) | 225 | 6 | 6 | 1 | ||
| FT-SGA | 54 | 9,5 | 11 | 1.49** | 1.10 | 2.04 |
| PT-AGA | 426 | 14 | 23 | 2.17*** | 1.83 | 2.56 |
| PT-SGA | 132 | 18 | 28 | 2.62*** | 2.09 | 3.27 |
| Total | 837 | 10 | 19 | |||
AGA, appropriate gestational age, CI, confident interval, FT, full-term, PT, preterm, SGA, small for gestational age, IQR, Inter Quartile Range, IRR, Incidence Rate Ratio.
a
Calculated by Negative Binomial Regression.
**
p < 0.01.
***
p < 0.001.