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Table 2 Study participant characteristics

From: Cardiovascular health in pediatric heart transplant patients

 

Heart transplant recipients, N (%)

NHANES sample, N (%)

Total sample size

110

19,081

Sex

  

 Male

62 (56)

9,763 (51)

 Female

48 (44)

9,318 (49)

Ethnicity/race

  

 Non-Hispanic Caucasian

63 (57)

5,495 (29)

 Non-Hispanic African American

20 (18)

4,497 (23)

 Hispanic

26 (24)

6,808 (36)

 Other/unknown

1 (1)

2,281 (12)

Age, years

  

 0–1

39 (35)

3,600 (19)

 2–5

16 (15)

4,335 (23)

 6–11

24 (22)

6,267 (33)

 12+

31 (28)

4,879 (25)

Cardiac history

  

 Cardiomyopathy

64 (58)

N/A

 Congenital heart disease

46 (42)

N/A

  1. NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007–2016. See text (Methods) for details