Table 1.

Hospital admissions and primary admission reasons for 7 years of administrative data

	Homozygotes	Heterozygotes	Noncarrier	OR (Hom vs. NC) (95% CI)	OR (Het vs. NC) (95% CI)
Total Individuals	50	50	49
Female (%)	24 (48)	23 (46)	21 (43)
Mean birth weight ± SD (g)	3,371 ± 637	3,266 ± 767	3,412 ± 597
Premature (<37 weeks)	6	5	5
Non-newborn Hospital Admissions (per person)
Mean (Median)	2.6 (2)	1.9 (1)	0.8 (0)
Range	(0–12)	(0–13)	(0–6)
T-Test (vs. Noncarrier)a	P<0.001	P=0.009
Days of Stay (per admission)
Mean (Median)	3.6 (3)	2.9 (2)	1.8 (1)
Range	1–14	1–14	1–7
T-test (vs. Noncarrier)a	P=0.001	P=0.001
Individuals with at least one hospital admission
Any reason	45	33	23	10.2 (3.4–30.0)	2.2 (1.0–4.9)
Dental Carries	30	25	15	3.4 (1.5–7.8)	2.3 (1.0–5.2)
Acute Lower Resp. Inf.	14	9	3	6.0 (1.6–22.4)	3.4 (0.9–13.3)
Otitis Media	11	1	1	13.5 (1.5–7.8)	1.0 (0.06–16.1)

CI Confidence interval; NC Noncarrier; OR Odds ratio.

^aTwo-tailed unpaired T-test.