Table 3.
Backward selection algorithm for time-to-first VT.
| n = 591 | MALES N = 474 |
FEMALES N = 117 |
P-VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age more than 65 years | 378 (64.2%) | 211 (35.8%) | 0.21 |
| Hypertension | 412 (88.0%) | 102 (89.5%) | 0.87 |
| Diabetes | 118 (25.3%) | 40 (34.8%) | 0.06 |
| Valve replacement history | 164 (34.6%) | 35 (29.9%) | 0.38 |
| Coronary artery bypass surgery | 120 (25.5%) | 17 (14.8%) | 0.02 |
| Percutaneous coronary intervention | 52 (11.1%) | 6 (5.2%) | 0.06 |
| Syncope history | 63 (13.4%) | 14 (12%) | 0.88 |
| Myocardial infarction | 147 (31.2%) | 23 (20.2%) | 0.17 |
| A trial Fibrillation history | 79 (16.7%) | 17 (14.5%) | 0.67 |