Table 1.

Demographics of healthy infants compared to children having surgery with DS/CHD and CHD.

	Controls n = 10	DS/CHD n = 55	CHD n = 29	*p	**p	***p
Gestation at birth (weeks)	39.4 [37.8–40.2]	37.8 [36.3–38.7]	39.0 [37.0–40.0]	0.01	0.05	0.48
Birth weight (kg)	3.15 [3.08–3.61]	2.92 [2.57–3.26]	3.17 [2.64–3.60]	0.22	0.02	0.15
Female	5 (50)	31 (56)	17 (59)	1.00	0.92	0.81
Age at surgery (months)	6 [3–7]	5 [4–6]	5 [4–6]	0.19	0.35	0.16
Weight at surgery (kg)	6.7 [5.6–7.6]	5.53 [5.06–6.08]	5.33 [4.86–6.28]	0.68	0.03	0.2

Values are presented as median [interquartile range (IQR)] or count (%) as appropriate.

p Value of <0.05 was considered significant (*p value compared DS/CHD to CHD; **p value compared DS/CHD to Controls; ***p value compared CHD to Controls).

Statistically significant p-values are in bold.