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Table 2 Mother and newborn demographic and clinical characteristics

From: Prevalence and burden of illness of treated hemolytic neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in a privately insured population in the United States

 

Treated hemolytic NHB cohort

(N = 1,373)

Matched non-NHB cohort

(N = 1,373)

p-value3

Mothers

 Age on delivery (year), mean (SD)

32.2 (4.63)

32.1 (4.43)

0.401

 Geographic region, n (%)

  

0.394

  Northeast

289 (21.0)

285 (20.8)

 

  Midwest

503 (36.6)

494 (36.0)

 

  South

363 (26.4)

368 (26.8)

 

  West

212 (15.4)

218 (15.9)

 

  Other/Unknown1

6 (0.4)

8 (0.6)

 

 Health Plan type, n (%)

  

0.928

  HMO

270 (19.7)

262 (19.1)

 

  PPO

831 (60.5)

845 (61.5)

 

  CDHP

272 (19.8)

266 (19.4)

 

 Modified Deyo-Charlson Comorbidity Index2, mean (SD)

0.1 (0.47)

0.1 (0.40)

0.274

 Gestational diabetes, n (%)

239 (17.4)

222 (16.2)

0.367

 C-section, n (%)

399 (29.1)

399 (29.1)

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Newborns

 Gender, n (%)

  

_

  Male

667 (48.6)

667 (48.6)

 

  Female

706 (51.4)

706 (51.4)

 

 Estimated gestational age, n (%)

  

_

  35–37 weeks

250 (18.2)

250 (18.2)

 

   > 37 weeks

1,123 (81.8)

1,123 (81.8)

 

 Year of birth, n (%)

  

< 0.001

  2011

217 (15.8)

217 (15.8)

 

  2012

211 (15.4)

195 (14.2)

 

  2013

187 (13.6)

206 (15.0)

 

  2014

197 (14.3)

239 (17.4)

 

  2015

228 (16.6)

239 (17.4)

 

  2016

208 (15.1)

188 (13.7)

 

  2017

125 (9.1)

89 (6.5)

 
  1. NHB neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, SD standard deviation, HMO Health Maintenance Organization, PPO Provider Preferred Organization, CDHP Consumer Driven Health Products
  2. 1Other/unknown region includes American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands or unknown region
  3. 2Modified Deyo-Charlson Comorbidity Index was estimated using ICD-9/10-CM codes by Beyrer et al. [36]
  4. 3p-value calculated using McNemar test or McNemar-Bowker test for categorical variables and paired t-test or Wilcoxon signed-rank test for continuous variables