Characteristics of very low birth weight infants (n=105)
| Characteristics | n |
| Received antenatal care | 88 |
| Received antenatal steroids | 45 |
| Black ethnicity | 99 |
| Primiparous mother | 31 |
| Maternal hypertension | 30 |
| Maternal HIV | 26 |
| Delivered by caesarean | 76 |
| Resuscitated at birth with bag and mask | 30 |
| Early-onset sepsis | 5 |
| Respiratory distress syndrome | 89 |
| Surfactant replacement therapy | 80 |
| Nasal continuous airways pressure | 70 |
| Mechanical ventilation | 17 |
| Retinopathy of prematurity (grade 2 or more) | 5 |
| Patent ductus arteriosus | 11 |
| Intraventricular haemorrhage grade 3 or 4 | 0 |
| Cystic periventricular leucomalacia | 0 |
| Necrotising enterocolitis (stage 2 or more) | 4 |
| Exchange transfusion | 1 |
| Sepsis after day 3 | 21 |
| Received oxygen on day 28 | 32 |
| Steroids for chronic lung disease | 17 |
| Birth defect | 3 |