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Table 3 Baseline demographic and clinical characteristic of the enrolled newborns and of their parents: postnatal conditions

From: Risk factors for bronchiolitis hospitalization during the first year of life in a multicenter Italian birth cohort

 

wGA groups

 

33+0d-34+6d (No. 737)

35+0d-37+6d (No. 767)

≥38+0d (No. 706)

Total (No. 2210)

Presence of siblings

    

  None

472 (64.0)

444 (57.9)

394 (55.8)

1310 (59.3)

  ≤ 10 year

223 (30.3)

289 (37.7)

280 (39.7)

792 (35.8)

  > 10 year

42 (5.7)

34 (4.4)

32 (4.5)

108 (4.9)

Residential crowding

88 (11.9)

86 (11.2)

53 (7.5)

227 (10.3)

Lack of breastfeeding

209 (28.4)

193 (25.2)

80 (11.3)

482 (21.8)

Pollution exposure

77 (10.4)

102 (13.3)

87 (12.3)

266 (12.0)

Exposure to parental smoking

310 (42.1)

320 (41.7)

272 (38.5)

902 (40.8)

Indoor humidity

75 (10.2)

75 (9.8)

72 (10.2)

222 (10)

Exposure to epidemic season

437 (59.3)

474 (61.8)

412 (58.4)

1323 (59.9)

Hospitalization for bronchiolitis

54 (7.3)

41 (5.3)

25 (3.5)

120 (5.4)

  1. All data are reported as No. (%); wGA = weeks of gestational age; yrs = years