Hospital Admission Patterns in Children with CAH: Admission Rates and Adrenal Crises Decline with Age

Table 1

Demographic and disease characteristics of patients in the CAH and random sample groups, NSW, 2001–2013.

	CAH group		Random sample		value
	( = 573)		( = 3120)
		%		%
Sex (male)	286	49.9	1703	54.6	<0.05
Age (mean)	5.1 (SD 5.2)		5.1 (SD 5.8)		NS
Age group (yrs)
0	149	26.0	816	26.2	<0.001
1–5	207	36.1	1249	40.0
6–11	129	22.5	455	14.6
12–18	88	15.4	600	19.2
Length of stay (days)
1	333	58.1	1723	55.2	<0.05
2-3	140	24.4	933	29.9
4 or more	100	17.5	464	14.9
ICU admission	31	5.4	42	1.3	<0.001
Infection (any)	249	43.5	1613	51.7	<0.001
Bacteria	34	5.9	295	9.5	<0.01
Virus	122	21.3	632	20.3	NS
Respiratory tract illness	98	17.1	1207	38.7	<0.001
Asthma	22	3.8	422	13.5	<0.001
Bronchiolitis	13	2.3	266	8.5	<0.001
Pneumonia/LRTI	16	2.8	457	14.6	<0.001
Gastroenteritis	96	16.8	247	7.9	<0.001
UTI	15	2.6	116	3.7	NS
Fever	17	3.0	88	2.8	NS
Diabetes	2	0.3	83	2.7	<0.001