Table 3

Percentages of children on dialysis that received nasogastric or gastrostomy tube feeding, growth hormone, or erythropoietin during each year of the study

	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Not all the tube feeding percentages add up to 100 because of rounding.
*The growth hormone numbers are not given for 1997 because the follow up period is too short.
Nasogastric feeds	73	47	39	43	50	38	48	44	50	56
Gastrostomy feeds	7	27	39	21	39	44	38	50	42	36
Not tube fed	20	27	23	36	11	19	14	6	8	8
Growth hormone	27	13	15	7	5	19	14	19	25	*
Erythropoietin	47	50	46	71	89	88	91	75	82	84