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Br J Ophthalmol 83:425-428 doi:10.1136/bjo.83.4.425
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    • Clinical science

Dopamine use is an indicator for the development of threshold retinopathy of prematurity

Table 3

Clinical characteristics for infants with ROP

Clinical characteristics Threshold ROP
(n=8) 		No threshold ROP
(n=33) 		Significance
(p value)
Hypotension 8 (100%) 21 (64%) 0.11
Colloid treatment 8 (100%) 20 (61%) 0.08
Hyaline membrane disease 8 (100%) 22 (67%) 0.14
Days to first trial of extubation 25.1 (12.3) 10.2 (10.8) 0.013 MW
Gestational age (weeks) 25.8 (0.8) 26.8 (1.2) 0.006 p(t)

  • ↵Values are mean (SD) for continuous data and number (%) of infants for categorical data.

  • ↵MW = Mann–Whitney comparison; p(t) = two tailed Student’st test. χ2 with Yates’s correction was used for analysis of categorical data.

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