Pertinent characteristics of 46 subjects participating to the study. Mean ± SEM is shown for each variable. Anova significance (p)

Table 1: Pertinent characteristics of 46 subjects participating to the study. Mean ± SEM is shown for each variable. Anova significance (p) < 0.05 level.

	CSII	CV	P
Number of subjects	23	23	-
Age at the onset of study (yr)	2.3 ± 0.2	3.2 ± 0.2	Ns
Age at the end of study (yr)	5.5 ± 0.7	6.7 ± 0.3	Ns
Follow up duration (yr)	3.2 ± 0.6	3.5 ± 0.3	Ns
BMI at the onset of the study (kg/m²)	17.0 ± 0.3	16.9 ± 0.4	Ns