Table 2.

Distribution of Interleukin-6 −634C/G Genotypes and Effects on Clinical Parameters

	AF (n=75)				Controls (n=94)
Characteristics	CC	CG	GG	P	CC	CG	GG	P
Genotypes frequencies (n, %)	38 (50.67)	30 (40.00)	7 (9.33)		63 (67.02)	29 (30.85)	2 (2.13)	0.0312
Age (years)	71.89±9.14	71.31±8.24	71.57±8.56	0.9636	71.33±8.19	71.18±8.14	69.79±4.22	0.9644
Gender (% male)	63.16	63.33	57.14	0.9508	63.49	68.97	50.00	0.7945
SBP (mm Hg)	145.76±24.92	144.76±24.17	145.44±24.73	0.9862	144.67±23.81	140.07±23.22	142.75±13.61	0.6853
DBP (mm Hg)	82.28±10.52	81.15±10.10	81.57±10.18	0.9034	83.17±11.40	83.61±11.45	83.30±4.51	0.9852
BMI (Kg/m2)	23.28±3.07	23.83±3.61	23.72±3.33	0.7862	23.90±3.84	23.81±3.72	23.35±1.88	0.9761
LVEF (%)	59.38±5.94	60.56±6.49	59.45±6.12	0.7256	61.58±6.77	60.60±6.47	61.22±2.45	0.8062
Left atrial dimension (mm)	45.73±6.56	49.82±7.85a	54.26±8.23a	0.0065	37.10±6.58	38.11±6.97	37.56±2.21	0.7965
TC (mmol/L)	4.97±0.61	4.71±0.52	4.92±0.58	0.1781	4.78±0.52	4.60±0.47	4.63±0.14	0.2753
LDL-C (mmol/L)	2.41±0.38	2.62±0.49	2.46±0.40	0.1378	2.52±0.45	2.59±0.48	2.48±0.23	0.7791
HDL-C (mmol/L)	1.44±0.26	1.35±0.22	1.51±0.25	0.1752	1.51±0.31	1.38±0.26	1.53±0.11	0.1434
TG (mmol/L)	1.54±0.48	1.69±0.57	1.53±0.53	0.4717	1.49±0.42	1.61±0.52	1.59±0.15	0.4891

^aP<0.05 in comparison with the CC genotype.