Table 2.

Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of the non-HF and HF patients from Jiangsu Province Hospital of Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine.

Characteristic	Non-HF patients (n = 8)	HF patients (n = 5)	p-value
Sex (male)	6 (75%)	3 (60%)	>0.999
Age (years)	58.0 ± 11.6	65.8 ± 10.6	0.286
Smoking	5 (62.5%)	0 (0%)	0.075
Hypertension	2 (25%)	3 (60%)	0.293
Diabetes	1 (12.5%)	2 (40%)	0.511
Dyslipidemia	3 (37.5%)	0 (0%)	0.231
Previous MI	0 (0%)	1 (20%)	0.385

Data were presented as mean value ± standard deviation or percentage of patients.