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Table 3 Distribution of chronic underlying diseases of children who died in Xinhua Hospital during 2006–2015

From: Causes of death in hospitalized children younger than 12 years of age in a Chinese hospital: a 10 year study

 

Infants (n/214)

Toddler (n/180)

Older children (n/116)

p valuea

n

%

n

%

n

%

With chronic underlying diseases

171

79.9

134

74.4

86

74.1

0.3384

 Congenital abnormalities

129

60.3

56

31.1

20

17.2

<0.0001

 Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune diseases

18

8.4

22

12.2

14

12.0

0.3970

 Tumour

18

8.4

56

31.1

51

44.0

<0.0001

 Other

6

2.8

0

0

1

0.9

0.0506

Without chronic underlying diseases

43

20.1

46

25.6

30

25.9

0.3384

  1. aChi-squared test