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 | |
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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 |