Table 1.
Clinical- and socio-demographic patient characteristics of responders and non-responders (N = 487)
| Responder | Non-responder | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Categories | M ± SD | N | % | M ± SD | N | % | p-value |
| Age | 60.9 ± 12.5 | 59.2 ± 13.5 | 0.08$ | |||||
| Gender | Male | 232 | 66.1% | 95 | 70.8% | |||
| Female | 119 | 33.9% | 41 | 29.2% | ||||
| Total | 351 | 100% | 136 | 100% | 0.33§ | |||
| Professional status | Employed | 43 | 12.3% | 42 | 30.9% | |||
| Retired | 260 | 74.1% | 63 | 46.3% | ||||
| Unemployed | 9 | 2.6% | 4 | 2.9% | ||||
| Other | 25 | 7.1% | 10 | 7.4% | ||||
| Total | 337 | 96.0% | 119 | 87.5% | ||||
| Missing | 14 | 4.0% | 17 | 12.5% | 0.08§ | |||
| Education | Compulsory education (CE) | 101 | 28.8% | 34 | 25.0% | |||
| CE+ vocational training | 135 | 38.5% | 54 | 39.7% | ||||
| University degree | 89 | 25.4% | 32 | 23.5% | ||||
| Total | 325 | 92.6% | 120 | 88.2% | ||||
| Missing | 26 | 7.4% | 16 | 11.8% | 0.45§ | |||
| Smoking status | Current | 39 | 11.1% | 11 | 8.1% | |||
| Ex-smoker | 165 | 47.0% | 69 | 50.7% | ||||
| Never smoker | 119 | 33.9% | 34 | 25% | ||||
| Total | 323 | 92.0% | 114 | 83.8 | ||||
| Missing | 28 | 8.0% | 22 | 16.2% | 0.34§ | |||
| Primary diagnosis | Ischemic heart disease | 271 | 77.2% | 109 | 80.1% | |||
| Heart valve disease | 51 | 14.5% | 13 | 9.6% | ||||
| Other | 29 | 8.3% | 14 | 32.6% | 0.30§ | |||
| Primary intervention | PCI | 170 | 48.4% | 63 | 46.3% | |||
| CABG | 102 | 29.1% | 39 | 28.7% | ||||
| HVS | 54 | 15.4% | 18 | 13.2% | ||||
| OPT | 25 | 7.1% | 16 | 11.8% | 0.77§ | |||
| NYHA# | I | 328 | 93.4% | 118 | 86.8% | |||
| (at discharge of initial CR) | II | 19 | 5.4% | 16 | 11.8% | |||
| III | 4 | 1.1% | 2 | 1.5% | 0.05§ | |||
| IV | - | - | ||||||
PCI = percutaneous coronary intervention
CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting
HVS = heart valve surgery
OPT = optimal pharmacological treatment
# New York Heart Association Classification
$independent t-test
§chi-square