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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Heart Fail. 2011 Sep 7;4(6):733–739. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.111.962027

Table 1.

The Demographics and the Prevalent Diseases of the Enrolled Participants

Variable Healthy
Control
N = 279
Control
N = 280
HFPEF
N = 175
HFREF
N = 146
p-value Pairwise
comparison
Age (years) 78±6 76 ± 6 76 ± 5 77 ± 6 0.01 2*
Male n (%) 144 (51) 146 (52) 79 (45) 92 (63) 0.02 3*, 5*, 6*
White n(%) 269 (95) 154 (55) 149 (85) 128 (88) <0.0001 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Diabetes n (%) 0 59 (21) 47 (27) 44 (30) 0.17 1, 2, 3, 4*
Hypertension n (%) 3 (1) 160 (57) 93 (53) 70 (48) 0.0003 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hyperlipidemia n (%) 127 (45) 148 (53) 84 (48) 61 (42) 0.11 NS
Stroke or TIA n (%) 0 36 (13) 37 (21) 42 (29) 0.001 1, 2, 3, 4*, 5
Myocardial Infarction n(%) 0 39 (14) 67 (38) 93 (64) <0.0001 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6
Incidence rate of
hospitalization for heart
failure n (%)
- - 131 (75) 128 (88) <0.0001 N/A

1 indicates healthy control versus control; 2, healthy control versus DHF; 3, healthy control versus SHF; 4, control versus DHF; 5, control versus SHF; 6, DHD versus SHF.

*

P< 0.05;

P<0.01;

P<0.001