Table 1.

Demographic and clinical features of the 196 participants in the SIT Trial

CharacteristicTransfusion (n = 90)Standard care (n = 106)P
Age, median [IQR], y 10.0 [3.7] 9.8 [4.4] .925* 
Male sex, n (%) 33 (36.7) 52 (49.1) .081# 
No. of hospitalizations 144 269 <.001 
Length of stay, median [IQR], d 2.0 [2.0] 3.0 [3.0] <.001* 
Total length of stay (hospital days) 358 912 <.001 
Cerebral infarct incidence (per 100 patient-years) 2.0 5.6 .02 
Hospitalizations for adverse events    
 Vaso-occlusive pain 54 151 <.001 
 ACS 34 <.001 
 Fever without source 12 11 .570 
 Fever with source .538 
 Sepsis .213 
 Osteomyelitis .290 
 Infection .584 
 Acute anemia .923 
 Splenic sequestration .303 
 Aplastic crisis .538 
 Priapism .923 
 Surgery (specialty type) 16 18 .915 
 Transfusion reaction, shock, oliguria, hemoglobinuria .462 
 Asthma .651 
 Headache .538 
 Other event 29 22 .130 
CharacteristicTransfusion (n = 90)Standard care (n = 106)P
Age, median [IQR], y 10.0 [3.7] 9.8 [4.4] .925* 
Male sex, n (%) 33 (36.7) 52 (49.1) .081# 
No. of hospitalizations 144 269 <.001 
Length of stay, median [IQR], d 2.0 [2.0] 3.0 [3.0] <.001* 
Total length of stay (hospital days) 358 912 <.001 
Cerebral infarct incidence (per 100 patient-years) 2.0 5.6 .02 
Hospitalizations for adverse events    
 Vaso-occlusive pain 54 151 <.001 
 ACS 34 <.001 
 Fever without source 12 11 .570 
 Fever with source .538 
 Sepsis .213 
 Osteomyelitis .290 
 Infection .584 
 Acute anemia .923 
 Splenic sequestration .303 
 Aplastic crisis .538 
 Priapism .923 
 Surgery (specialty type) 16 18 .915 
 Transfusion reaction, shock, oliguria, hemoglobinuria .462 
 Asthma .651 
 Headache .538 
 Other event 29 22 .130 

IQR, interquartile range.

*

Mann-Whitney U test.

#

χ2 test.

Mid-P exact test.

Permutation test.

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