Low neonatal blood glucose levels in cesarean-delivered term newborns at Khartoum Hospital, Sudan

Diagnostic Pathology

Table 4 Factors affecting newborn blood glucose levels at 2 hours of age using multiple linear regressions

Variable	Coefficient	Standard error	P-value
Maternal age	0.014	0.114	0.683
Parity	0.004	0.358	0.917
Gestational age	0.001	0.448	0.983
Body mass index	─ 0.017	0.206	0.541
Cesarean delivery	0.001	1.801	0.992
Maternal glucose at delivery	─ 0.105	0.055	0.101
Birth weight	0.043	2.020	0.165
Fetal gender	─ 0.050	0.791	0.081
Cord glucose	0.954	0.031	< 0.001
Maternal glucose at 2 hours	0.161	0.053	0.004
Time to start feeding	─ 0.016	0.074	0.591
Duration of maternal fasting	0.029	0.314	0.651

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