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. 2025 Aug 19;20(1):67. doi: 10.5334/gh.1455

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of patients.


VARIABLES TOTAL N = 4030 <65 YEARS N = 3148 (78.1%) ≥65 YEARS N = 882 (21.9%) P-VALUE

Sociodemographic

      Age (years) 52 ± 15 47 ± 11 73 ± 7 <0.001

      Sex 0.833

            Male 1886 (46.8%) 1476 (46.9%) 410 (46.5%)

            Female 2144 (53.2%) 1672 (53.1%) 472 (53.5%)

Clinical

      Obesity 1649 (45.4%) 1361 (46.4%) 288 (41.3%) 0.003

      Body mass index (kg/m2) 29.8 ± 6.1 30.0 ± 6.1 29.2 ± 6.0 0.153

      Hypertension 2167 (53.8%) 1620 (51.5%) 547 (62.0%) <0.001

      Stroke 60 (1.5%) 39 (1.2%) 21 (2.4%) 0.013

      Diabetes mellitus 143 (3.5%) 97 (3.1%) 46 (5.2%) 0.002

      Ischemic heart disease 58 (1.4%) 27 (0.9%) 31 (3.5%) <0.001

Echocardiographic

      Left atrial diameter (mm) 35.7 ± 6.7 35.5 ± 6.6 36.2 ± 7.0 0.011

      Aortic root diameter (mm) 29.2 ± 4.9 29.0 ± 5.0 29.8 ± 4.6 <0.001

      IVSTD (mm) 12.5 ± 3.0 12.3 ± 3.0 13.2 ± 3.2 <0.001

      PWTD (mm) 10.6 ± 2.5 10.5 ± 2.3 10.9 ± 2.4 <0.001

      LVIDD (mm) 48.0 ± 8.4 48.4 ± 8.1 46.8 ± 9.1 <0.001

      LVIDS (mm) 30.3 ± 9.3 30.4 ± 9.1 29.8 ± 9.9 0.075

      RWT 0.46 ± 0.1 0.45 ± 0.1 0.49 ± 0.2 <0.001

      LVMI (g/m2) 112.5 ± 41.6 110.7 ± 40.7 120.1 ± 44.3 <0.001

      LVH 1830 (50.5%) 1421 (48.5%) 409 (58.8%) <0.001

      Ejection fraction (%) 66.0 ± 14 67.0 ± 13.0 65.0 ± 15.0 0.016

      Fractional shortening (%) 38.0 ± 10.0 38.0 ± 10.0 37.0 ± 11.0 0.057

      E velocity (m/s) 0.82 ± 3.3 0.84 ± 3.6 0.77 ± 2.1 0.575

      A velocity (m/s) 1.34 ± 23.7 1.41 ± 26.5 1.10 ± 6.1 0.553

      E/A 1.26 ± 2.2 1.28 ± 1.6 1.21 ± 3.7 0.602

      E′ velocity (m/s) 0.15 ± 2.4 0.17 ± 2.8 0.09 ± 0.2 0.120

      E/E′ 9.4 ± 15.6 8.96 ± 14.4 10.94 ± 19.0 0.002

      Aortic sclerosis 169 (4.2%) 53 (1.7%) 116 (13.2%) <0.001

      Degenerative mitral valve disease 10 (0.2%) 1 (0.0%) 9 (1.0%) <0.001*

      Calcific aortic valve disease 48 (1.2%) 18 (0.6%) 30 (3.4%) <0.001

            Mild 25 (0.6%) 9 (0.3%) 16 (1.8%)

            Moderate 12 (0.3%) 3 (0.1%) 9 (1.0%)

            Severe 11 (0.3%) 6 (0.2%) 5 (0.6%)

      DVD 53 (1.3%) 19 (0.6%) 34 (3.9%) <0.001

IVSTD, interventricular septal thickness in diastole; PWTD, left ventricular posterior wall thickness in diastole; LVIDD, left ventricular internal dimension in diastole; LVIDD, left ventricular internal dimension in systole; RWT, relative wall thickness; LVMI, left ventricular mass index; LVH, left ventricular hypertrophy; DVD, degenerative valve disease.

*Fishers exact test.