Table 1:
Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients with Down syndrome who underwent DISE-directed surgery (N=24)
|
Sex Male |
Surgically naive (N=14) |
Previous AT (N=10) |
p - value* |
| No. (%) | |||
| 7 (50) | 8 (80) | 0.21 | |
| Normal weight (5th–84th percentile) | 13 (93) | 2 (20) | <0.01 |
| Overweight (85th-94th BMI percentile ) | 1 (7) | 6 (60) | |
| Obese (≥95th BMI percentile) | 0 | 2 (20) | |
| Race | |||
| White | 8 (57) | 8 (80) | 0.24 |
| Non White | 3 (36) | 0 (10) | |
| Declined to answert | 3 (7) | 2 (10) | |
| Comorbidities** | |||
| Hypotonia | 3 (21) | 0 | 0.24 |
| Pulmonary disorder | 3 (21) | 1 (10) | 0.62 |
| Developmental delay | 2 (14) | 1 (10) | 1.00 |
| Age (years) at DISE | Mean (SD) | ‡0.07 | |
| 3.9 (3.4) | 6.5 (3.2) | ||
| BMI percentile (%) | 55 (27) | 85 (16) | ‡<0.01 |
*
p-value from Fisher’s exact test
**
No subjects had a coexisting craniofacial condition, skeletal abnormality, or neurologic condition
‡
p-value from 2 sample t-test with equal variances
Abbreviations: DISE, drug-induced sleep endoscopy; AT, adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy; BMI, Body Mass Index; SD, Standard Deviation
t
Patients who declined to answer were not included in the statistical comparison of white and non-white patients