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Table 3 Relationships between infant body temperatures and chronic respiratory morbidity risk, oxygen desaturations, and bradycardia with oxygen desaturations

From: Body temperature instability and respiratory morbidity in the very low birth weight infant: a multiple case, intensive longitudinal study

Outcome

F p-value

Adjusted Mean ± SEa

Cohen db

Cohen d 95% CIb

CRMR

0.2765

 

0.01

0.00, 0.02

  Yes

 

36.69 ± 0.14

  

  No

 

36.23 ± 0.25

  

O2 desat

< 0.0001

 

-0.01

-0.02, 0.01

  Yes

 

36.49 ± 0.05

  

  No

 

36.59 ± 0.05

  

B/D

< 0.0001

 

0.03

0.02, 0.04

  Yes

 

36.29 ± 0.06

  

  No

 

36.58 ± 0.06

  
  1. CRMR chronic respiratory morbidity risk, O2 desat oxygen desaturation, B/D bradycardia with oxygen desaturation aMean and SE adjusted for fixed, random, and nesting effects bCohen d effect sizes: small= ±0.20, medium= ±0.50, large = ±0.80
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