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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Heart Rhythm. 2009 Sep 19;7(1):52. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.09.023

Table 1.

Historical characteristics and intra-procedural findings divided by sex (left) and by White versus not White (right). Age is displayed as median and (interquartile range).

Historical characteristics Male n=170 Female n=112 p value White n=157 Not White n=124 p value
Age (years) 16 (11–35) 17 (13–36) 0.34 17 (12–37) 16 (11–34) 0.59
Race 0.21 --- --- ---
 White 100 (59%) 57 (51%) --- --- ---
 Black 5 (3%) 6 (5%) --- --- ---
 Asian 17 (10%) 21 (19%) --- --- ---
 Latino 28 (17%) 13 (12%) --- --- ---
 Native-American 2 (1%) 1 (1%) --- --- ---
 Other 17 (10%) 14 (13%) --- --- ---
Foreign-born* 23 (15%) 16 (16%) 0.95 4 (3%) 35 (31%) <0.001
History of Syncope 16 (9%) 10 (9%) 0.89 11 (7%) 15 (12%) 0.16
History of cardiac arrest 2 (1%) 0 (0%) 0.25 2 (1%) 0 (0%) 0.20
History of atrial fibrillation 12 (7%) 3 (3%) 0.11 12 (8%) 3 (2%) 0.048

Intra-procedural characteristics

Dual node physiology 30 (18%) 15 (14%) 0.34 29 (19%) 16 (13%) 0.18
AVNRT elicited during the case 3 (2%) 3 (3%) 0.60 3 (2%) 3 (2%) 0.79
Any anterograde conducting accessory pathway 102 (60%) 75 (67%) 0.24 99 (63%) 78 (62%) 0.79
Any dangerous accessory pathway 8 (5%) 3 (3%) 0.39 6 (4%) 5 (4%) 0.96
*

Birth outside of North America

A pathway was considered “dangerous” if anterograde conduction demonstrated an R-R interval during AF < 250 ms, the anterograde block cycle length was < 250 ms, or the anterograde refractory period (at any drive cycle length) was < 250 ms.