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ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2024

The contribution of low Apgar scores in identifying neonates with short-term morbidities in a large single center cohort.

Samuel Huang, Miheret Yitayew, Henry J Rozycki

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Article in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samuel HuangSchool of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, Richmond, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3663-004X
Miheret YitayewSchool of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, Richmond, VA, USA.
Henry J RozyckiSchool of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, Richmond, VA, USA. henry.rozycki@vcuhealth.org.ORCID 0000-0002-5734-749X
Virginia Commonwealth University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo evaluate the association and utility of low 1- and 5-min Apgar scores to identify short-term morbidities in a large newborn cohort.

methods15,542 infants >22 weeks gestation from a single center were included. Clinical data and low Apgar scores were analyzed for significance to ten short-term outcomes and were used to construct Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves and the AUC calculated for ten outcomes.

resultsA low Apgar score related to all (1-min) or most (5-min) outcomes by univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. Including any of the 4 low Apgar scores only improved the clinical factor AUC by 0.9% ± 2.7% (±SD) and was significant in just 5 of the 40 score/outcome scenarios.

conclusionThe contribution of a low Apgar score for identifying risk of short-term morbidity does not appear to be clinically significant.

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Apgar ScoreCohort StudiesFemaleGestational AgeHumansInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureLogistic ModelsMaleRetrospective StudiesROC Curve

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PMID38548866
PMCPMC11161404
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