Table 1

Patient characteristics

Non-critical aortic stenosisCritical aortic stenosisP value
Patients (n)4265
Gestational age, median (range), weeks40 (35–42)39 (26–42)0.022*
Gender, male/female33/952/130.858†
Birth weight, mean (SD), kg3.6 (0.66)3.3 (0.76)0.01‡
Age at diagnosis, median (range), days2 (0–20)1 (0–7)0.315*
Age at first treatment, median (range), days8 (1–26)5 (0–26)0.004*
Follow-up time, median (range), years14.6 (1–26)13.0 (1–26)0.314*
  • *Independent-samples Mann-Whitney U test.

  • †χ2 test.

  • ‡Independent-samples t-test.