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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Apr 18;71(7):e30996. doi: 10.1002/pbc.30996

Table 1.

Demographic and disease information by ethnicity

Overall N = 273 Hispanic N = 189 Non-Hispanic N = 84 p-value1

Age (median), years (IQR) 6.5 (3.4, 12.5) 7.4 (3.5, 13.2) 5.2 (3.1, 9.6) 0.018

Male, n (%) 149 (54.6) 108 (57.1) 41 (48.8) 0.2

Down syndrome, n (%) 14 (5.1) 10 (5.3) 4 (4.8) 0.9

WBC (median), K/µL (IQR) 7.7 (3.1, 32.1) 9.0 (3.1, 47.5) 6.9 (3.0, 15.7) 0.2

Subtype, n (%)
Favorable 101 (37.0) 61 (32.3) 40 (47.6) 0.056
Neutral 78 (28.6) 58 (30.7) 20 (23.8)
Unfavorable 94 (34.3) 70 (37.0) 24 (28.6)

CNS2 or CNS3, n (%) 2 67 (24.7) 56 (29.9) 11 (13.1) 0.004

NCI high risk, n (%) 130 (47.6) 100 (52.9) 30 (35.7) 0.009

EOI MRD+, n (%) 2 66 (24.4) 50 (26.7) 16 (19.0) 0.2
1

Wilcoxon rank-sum test, Fisher’s exact test

2

N=271 (Hispanic: 187, Non-Hispanic: 84); IQR, interquartile range; WBC, white blood cell count; BM, bone marrow; CNS2, central nervous system 2 status at diagnosis; NCI high risk, National Cancer Institute risk score of 2 or 3; EOI, end of Induction; MRD, minimal/measurable residual disease.