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Table 1 Initial characteristics of 1025 Norwegian children born in 1993–1995 and invited to the Stavanger study according to consenting or not to the first follow-up 11–12 years later a)

From: Birth after preeclamptic pregnancies: association with allergic sensitization and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis in late childhood; a historically matched cohort study

 

Consented (n = 617)

Did not consent (n = 409)

 

Variable

n

  

n

  

p

Gender: boys, n (%)

617

296

(48.0)

408

220

(53.9)

0.065b)

Preeclampsia, n (%)

617

230

(37.3)

409

137

(33.5)

0.231b)

Maternal age, years, mean, 95% CI

610

28.0

(27.7, 28.4)

408

27.6

(27.2, 28.1)

0.194c)

Gestational age, weeks; mean, 95% CI

604

39.3

(39.1, 39.5)

343

39.2

(39.0, 39.5)

0.855c)

Birth weight z-scored)

590

-0.17

(-0.27, -0.07)

339

-0.06

(-0.18, 0.06)

0.169c)

  1. Abbreviations: CI confidence interval.
  2. a)Follow-up at the ages of 10.8 years (girls) and 11.8 years (boys);
  3. b)Exact chi-square test;
  4. c)Gosset’s t-test;
  5. d)Number of standard deviations from mean.