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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Heart Rhythm. 2008 Feb 16;5(6):826–830. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.02.016

Table 3.

Of the 31 subjects with complete family history data, the number of subjects with at least one family member of the type described in each row is shown.

Family Member Type (at least one) Lone Atrial Fibrillation (n=13) All other subjects without lone AF*(n=18) p value Non-Lone Atrial Fibrillation (n=8) p value
Parent 11 (85%) 12 (67%) 0.26 5 (62%) 0.25
Father 7 (53%) 6 (33%) 0.25 1 (13%) 0.058
Sibling 4 (31%) 6 (35%) 0.79 3 (38%) 0.59
Children 2 (15%) 1 (6%) 0.36 0 0.24
Aunt or Uncle 1 (8%) 4 (22%) 0.28 1 (13%) 0.72
Grandparent 0 1 (6%) 0.39 0
Male family members 10 (77%) 11 (61%) 0.35 4 (50%) 0.20
Female family members 6 (46%) 12 (67%) 0.25 6 (75%) 0.20
*

This group consists of 8 non-lone atrial fibrillation subjects, 5 atrial flutter subjects, 3 supraventricular tachycardia subjects, and 2 normal controls.

All of these relatives were male