Table 1.
Child Characteristics by Calcium Use
| Calcium use | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No (N = 650) | Yes (N = 450) | P-value | |
| Demographics | |||
| Age | 0.0101 | ||
| ≤ 1 month | 88 (13.5%) | 85 (18.9%) | |
| >1 month - < 1 year | 287 (44.2%) | 177 (39.3%) | |
| 1 year - < 8 years | 168 (25.8%) | 95 (21.1%) | |
| 8 years - < 19 years | 107 (16.5%) | 93 (20.7%) | |
| Male | 346 (53.2%) | 243 (54.0%) | 0.8061 |
| Race | 0.1601 | ||
| White | 292 (44.9%) | 224 (49.8%) | |
| Black or African American | 177 (27.2%) | 104 (23.1%) | |
| Other | 42 (6.5%) | 24 (5.3%) | |
| Unknown or Not Reported | 139 (21.4%) | 98 (21.8%) | |
| Hispanic or Latino | 104 (16.0%) | 60 (13.3%) | 0.3391 |
| Weight (kg) | 7.1 [4.0, 14.7] | 7.0 [4.0, 18.0] | 0.6182 |
| Pre-existing medical conditions | |||
| Respiratory insufficiency | 574 (88.3%) | 371 (82.4%) | 0.0081 |
| Hypotension | 353 (54.3%) | 340 (75.6%) | <.0011 |
| Congestive heart failure | 74 (11.4%) | 66 (14.7%) | 0.1181 |
| Pneumonia | 95 (14.6%) | 39 (8.7%) | 0.0041 |
| Sepsis | 100 (15.4%) | 78 (17.3%) | 0.4061 |
| Renal insufficiency | 78 (12.0%) | 67 (14.9%) | 0.1741 |
| Malignancy | 26 (4.0%) | 25 (5.6%) | 0.2451 |
| Trauma | 16 (2.5%) | 18 (4.0%) | 0.1591 |
| Congenital heart disease | 350 (53.8%) | 282 (62.7%) | 0.0041 |
| Calcium-avid cardiac diagnoses | 58 (8.9%) | 46 (10.2%) | 0.4661 |
| Interrupted aortic arch | 8 (1.2%) | 8 (1.8%) | 0.4561 |
| Tetralogy of Fallot | 43 (6.6%) | 33 (7.3%) | 0.7171 |
| Truncus arteriosus | 8 (1.2%) | 8 (1.8%) | 0.4561 |
1
Fisher’s exact test
2
Wilcoxon rank-sum test