Prevalence of Anemia in Children with Congestive Heart Failure due to Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of children with congestive heart failure due to DCM. (Values correspond to number (𝑛) of patients or to means ± SD.)

	All patients; 𝑛=55	Anemic patients; 𝑛=35	Non-anemic patients; 𝑛=20	𝑃 value
Sex: male/female	28/27	19/16	9/11	n.s.
Mean age of first clinical heart failure symptoms (years)	4.06 ± 5.6	3.42 ± 5.3	5.19 ± 6.1	n.s.
Mean time of hospitalization (days per year)	25.94 ± 34.8	35.06 ± 40.48	9.97 ± 9.65	<0.05
Necessity of transfusion	17	17	0	<0.05
Death during followup	11	8	3	n.s.