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Table 2 Demographic characteristics after propensity score matching

From: Psychiatric disorders in term-born children with marginally low birth weight: a population-based study

Variables

MLBW (n = 50,060)

No MLBW (n = 50,060)

p value

Gender

 >0 .999a

 Female

30,115 (60.16)

30,115 (60.16)

 

 Male

19,945 (39.84)

19,945 (39.84)

 

Agec

 >0 .999b

 Mean ± SD

3.26 + 2.31

3.26 + 2.31

 

Economic status

 > 0.999a

 Low income

3543 (7.08)

3543 (7.08)

 

Confounders

 Blindness and low vision

3 (0.01)

3 (0.01)

 >0 .999a

 Epilepsy

180 (0.36)

180 (0.36)

 >0 .999a

 Fetal and neonatal hemorrhage

12 (0.02)

12 (0.02)

 >0 .999a

 Communicating hydrocephalus

4 (0.01)

4 (0.01)

 >0 .999a

 Intrauterine hypoxia and birth asphyxia

15 (0.03)

15 (0.03)

 >0 .999a

 Other perinatal jaundice

37 (0.07)

37 (0.07)

 >0 .999a

 Microcephalus

12 (0.02)

12 (0.02)

 > 0.999a

 Patent ductus arteriosus

363 (0.73)

363 (0.73)

 >0 .999a

 Pneumonia

1592 (3.18)

1592 (3.18)

 > 0.999a

 Pneumothorax

3 (0.01)

3 (0.01)

 > 0.999a

 Other respiratory conditions of fetus and newborn

217 (0.43)

217 (0.43)

 > 0.999a

  1. MLBW: marginally low birthweight, defined as term-born infants with birth weight between 2000 and 2499 g. No MLBW: term-born infants with birth weight ≥ 2500 g
  2. aChi-squared test; b t-test
  3. cAge was calculated using 2013/12/31 as the time point to minus the date of birth