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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2009 Jan;157(1):37–45. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2008.08.030

Table 2.

Infant Single Ventricle Trial Baseline Characteristics by Screening Status

Eligible
Characteristic Ineligible Not Enrolled Enrolled P-value*
N 712 303 230
Mean Age at Screening, Days 11.9 ± 11.1 11.3 ± 8.4 13.8 ± 9.2 <.001
 Male 11.8 ± 11.3 11.3 ± 7.5 13.2 ± 8.0 0.028
 Female 12.0 ± 10.9 11.2 ± 9.7 15.4 ± 11.4 0.008
Median (Q1,Q3) Age at Screening, Days 8.0 (4.0, 15.5) 10.0 (5.0, 14.0) 13.0 (8.0, 17.0) <.001
 Male 8.0 (4.0, 15.0) 10.0 (6.0, 14.5) 13.0 (8.0, 16.0) 0.008
 Female 9.0 (4.0, 16.0) 9.0 (4.0, 14.0) 12.5 (6.5, 22.0) 0.010
Male 58% 61% 70% 0.022
Race 0.096
 White 74% 72% 80%
 Black or African American 18% 18% 14%
 Asian 4% 4% 3%
 Other 4% 6% 3%
Hispanic 18% 14% 15% 0.703
Gestational Age <37 weeks 22% 9% 9% 0.879
Median (Q1,Q3) Gestational Age, Weeks** 38.0 (37.0, 39.0) 39.0 (38.0, 40.0) 38.0 (37.0, 39.0) 0.212
Mean Birth Weight, kg 2.9 ± 0.7 3.2 ± 0.5 3.3 ± 0.5 0.283
 Male 3.0 ± 0.7 3.3 ± 0.5 3.3 ± 0.5 0.383
 Female 2.8 ± 0.7 3.2 ± 0.4 3.2 ± 0.5 0.948
Single Ventricle Anatomic Diagnosis 0.168
 Single Ventricle 33% 36% 29%
 Hypoplastic Left Heart 42% 54% 63%
 Other Functional SV 23% 9% 8%
 Unclassified 2% 0.3% 0.4%
At least 1 Associated Anatomic Diagnosis 53% 50% 46% 0.370
Type of Surgery 0.138
 Norwood 48% 66% 72%
 Systemic-to-Pulmonary Shunt 25% 21% 17%
 Pulmonary artery Band 6% 7% 6%
 Damus-Kaye-Stansel 1% 1% 3%
 Other 20% 5% 2%
Median number of concurrent surgeries 0.0 (0.0, 1.0) 0.0 (0.0, 1.0) 0.0 (0.0, 1.0) 0.317
Median number of interventional cardiac catheterizations: birth to screening 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) 0.0 (0.0, 0.0) 0.116
Median number of other cardiac surgeries: post-palliation to screening 0.0 (0.0, 1.0) 0.0 (0.0, 1.0) 1.0 (0.0, 1.0) 0.061
*

Test of significance for differences between enrolled patients and eligible but not enrolled patients. Exact test for categorical variables and t-test or Wilcoxon rank sum test for continuous variables

**

Gestational age imputed as 40 weeks for 72 full-term patients.