Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of infants admitted with supraventricular tachycardia
| Variable | All patients (N = 131) | By center |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NOTEP (n = 72) | TEPS (n = 59) | |||
| Male | 84 (64) | 41 (57) | 43 (73) | .087 |
| Admission weight, kg | 3.7 (3.3–4.2) | 3.5 (3.2–4.1) | 3.9 (3.5–4.3) | .009∗ |
| Admission length, cm | 51.5 (49.0–54.0) | 51.0 (48.2–53.5) | 51.7 (50.2–54.8) | .078 |
| Race | .13 | |||
| Caucasian | 96 (74) | 57 (79) | 39 (66) | |
| African American | 22 (17) | 11 (15) | 11 (19) | |
| Asian | 1 (0.8) | 0 (0) | 1 (1.7) | |
| Other/multiple | 11 (8.5) | 3 (4.2) | 8 (14) | |
| Unknown | 1 (0.8) | 1 (1.4) | 0 (0) | |
| Hispanic ethnicity | 12 (9.2) | 2 (2.8) | 10 (17) | .014∗ |
| Infant of diabetic mother | 22 (17) | 13 (18) | 9 (15) | .8 |
| Prematurity | 18 (14) | 14 (19) | 4 (6.8) | .066 |
| Gestational age, wk | 39.0 (37.4–39.5) | 38.5 (37.0–39.3) | 39.0 (38.0–4.0) | .033∗ |
| Noninterventional CHD | 11 (8.4) | — | — | |
| Prenatal diagnosis | 22 (17) | 14 (19) | 8 (14) | .5 |
| Age at diagnosis, d | 11.0 (3.0–29.0) | 12.5 (4.5–32.2) | 10.0 (3.0–25.0) | .4 |
Values are n (%) or median (interquartile range).
CHD = congenital heart disease; NOTEP = no transesophageal pacing; TEPS = transesophageal pacing studies.
∗
P-values < .05.