Research Article
Assessing Latent Effects of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure on Growth and Risk of Cardiometabolic Disease in Late Adolescence: Design and Methods
Table 1
Characteristics of infants with and without prenatal cocaine exposure and their mothers at enrollment in the Miami Prenatal Cocaine Study.
| Characteristic | Non-cocaine-exposed infants
| Cocaine-exposed infants
| (n = 223) | (n = 253) |
| Maternal characteristics | | | Maternal age, mean (SD), y* | 23.8 (5.4) | 28.7 (4.8) | Education, mean (SD), y | 11.3 (1.4) | 11.2 (1.5) | Unemployed, %* | 82 | 95 | Never married, % | 89 | 90 | Primigravida, %* | 23 | 6 | Prenatal care ≥ 4 visits, %* | 83 | 68 | Infant characteristics | | | Birth weight, mean (SD), g* | 3303 (504) | 2971 (474) | Birth length, mean (SD), cm* | 50.7 (2.3) | 48.9 (2.5) | Birth head circumference, mean (SD), cm* | 33.8 (1.5) | 33.0 (1.6) | Gestational age, mean (SD), weeks* | 39.7 (1.4) | 39.4 (1.4) | Male, % | 50 | 48 |
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P < 0.01.
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