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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Heart Rhythm. 2014 Apr 24;11(8):1411–1417. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.04.032

Table 4.

Clinical diagnoses and TH positive area fraction

Disease Number
of
Diagnoses
Mean
(%)
Median
(%)
Max
(%)
Min
(%)
First
Quartile
(%)
Third
Quartile
(%)
Hypertension and/or Cardiovascular disease (20 Total Cases)

Hypertension 12 7.22 6.09 0.01 22.35 2.27 9.53
CAD and/or MI 10 4.58 2.97 0.01 15.08 0.74 7.02
Atrial Fibrillation 4 9.59 8.00 0.01 22.35 5.36 12.23
Sudden Cardiac Death 3 2.49 0.07 0.01 7.39 0.04 3.73
Ventricular Tachycardia 2 7.01 7.01 6.63 7.39 6.82 7.20

Neurodegenerative Disease (12 Total Cases)

Alzheimer's Disease 11 5.44 5.22 0.22 15.08 2.30 6.89
Parkinson Disease 2 6.37 6.37 3.57 9.17 4.97 7.77
Huntington Disease 1 4.27 4.27 4.27 4.27 4.27 4.27
Multiple System Atrophy 1 6.50 6.50 6.50 6.50 6.50 6.50

Diseases Related to Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy (10 Total Cases)

CHF 4 8.72 8.12 3.57 15.08 6.43 10.41
Depression 7 3.47 2.33 0.87 9.17 2.06 3.92

Cases Not Included in the Above Groups (5 Total Cases)

None of the above Diagnoses 5 3.44 0.79 0.34 9.50 0.45 6.13

TH: anti-Tyrosine Hydroxylase antibodies, CAD: Coronary artery disease, MI: Myocardial infarction, CHF: Chronic heart failure