Table 3.

General clinical characteristics and prognosis of children with CHI in the spontaneous remission group and the nonspontaneous remission group

	Spontaneous remission group	Non spontaneous remission group	Statistical results	P
Birth weight (kg)	3.44 ± 0.76	3.95 ± 0.74	F = 19.35	0.000
Age of onset (days)	85 (1–2825)	2 (1–210)	F = 18.44	0.000
Effective rate of diazoxide, n (%)	53/65 (81.54)	38/88 (43.18)	χ2 = 22.82	0.000
Effective rate of octreotide, n (%) Probability of carrying gene mutation, n (%)	10/12 (83.33) 10/30 (33.33)	14/29 (48.28) 37/48 (77.08)	χ2 = 4.30 χ2 = 14.76	0.038 0.000

The data is expressed as median (range) or mean ± standard deviation