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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Heart Fail. 2012 Dec 27;6(2):279–286. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.972828

Table 5.

Comparison of predictors of HFPEF versus HFREF

HFPEF HFREF
log(HR) s.e. log(HR) s.e. p value
Demographics
Age, per year increase 0.08 0.01 0.05 0.01 0.008
Female 0.26 0.16 −0.53 0.15 < 0.001
Clinical
Hypertension 0.49 0.18 0.63 0.16 0.58
Heart rate, per 12 bpm increase 0.26 0.07 0.37 0.06 0.23
Prior myocardial infarction −0.32 0.33 1.05 0.17 < 0.001
Prior coronary heart disease 0.53 0.19 0.64 0.16 0.66
Cerebrovascular disease −0.24 0.31 0.38 0.20 0.09
Diabetes mellitus 0.61 0.18 0.74 0.14 0.58
BMI, per 4.7 kg/m2 increase 0.20 0.07 0.01 0.07 0.06
Current smoker 0.73 0.20 0.32 0.18 0.13
Valvular disease 1.16 0.25 0.64 0.26 0.15
ECG criteria
Atrial fibrillation 0.66 0.24 0.16 0.22 0.12
Left ventricular hypertrophy 0.23 0.20 0.70 0.15 0.05
Left bundle branch block 1.28 0.52 2.23 0.34 0.12

Abbreviations: BMI, body-mass index; HFPEF, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; HFREF, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction; log(HR), estimate of the regression parameter; s.e., standard error;