Table 6.
0-9 years of age | 10-19 years of age | |||
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Including controls with malformations | Excluding controls with malformations | Including controls with malformations | Excluding controls with malformations | |
Number of observations | 618,082 | 586,874 | 343,797 | 326,991 |
Hospitalized at least once | 54,562 (8.83%) | 48,280 (8.23%) | 16,967 (4.94%) | 15,791 (4.83%) |
Hospitalization days among those hospitalized | 5.23 (11.37) | 4.68 (9.73) | 3.88 (9.27) | 3.83 (9.39) |
Note: The Table reports crude (unadjusted) hospitalization rates and average length of stay in the control sample born between 1977 and 2002 when including and excluding individuals with birth defects. The frequency of those hospitalized is reported with the percentage in parenthesis. The mean of hospitalization days is reported with the standard deviation in parenthesis.