Research Article
Inflammatory and Immune Proteins in Umbilical Cord Blood: Association with Hearing Screening Test Failure in Preterm Neonates
Table 1
Maternal and obstetric characteristics of the study population according to newborn hearing screening test results.
| | Abnormal finding on newborn hearing screening test | | | Absent () | Present () |
| | Maternal age (years) | 31.6 ± 3.6 | 31.8 ± 3.8 | 0.970 | | Nulliparity | 49 (43.8%) | 10 (66.7%) | 0.107 | | Membrane status | | | 0.270 | | Intact membranes | 49 (43.8%) | 4 (26.7%) | | | Preterm PROM | 63 (56.3%) | 11 (73.3%) | | | Cesarean delivery | 44 (39.3%) | 4 (26.7%) | 0.407 | | Antenatal corticosteroids | 107 (95.5%) | 13 (86.7%) | 0.193 | | Antenatal antibiotics | 87 (77.7%) | 13 (86.7%) | 0.737 | | Antenatal tocolytics | 91 (81.3%) | 12 (80.0%) | 1.000 | | Gestational age at admission (weeks) | 29.3 ± 3.3 | 28.4 ± 3.6 | 0.356 | | Histologic chorioamnionitis | 74 (66.1%) | 10 (66.7%) | 1.000 | | Funisitis | 22 (19.6%) | 7 (46.7%) | 0.043 | | Clinical chorioamnionitis | 5 (4.5%) | 3 (20.0%) | 0.078 |
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Values are given as mean ± standard deviation or n (%). PROM: premature rupture of membranes.
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