Table 2.

Patient characteristics separated by aortic stenosis severity grade. The p-value stems from the Jonckheere-Terpstra-Test and for sex and valve morphology from the Chi-Square-Test.

Parameter	Mild	Moderate	Severe	p-value
n	14	8	15
Sex (male | female)	8 | 6	3 | 5	12 | 3	0.12
Age (y)	58 ± 17	63 ± 13	68 ± 8	0.13
Height (cm)	168 ± 9	169 ± 11	172 ± 8	0.18
Weight (kg)	81 ± 14	82 ± 14	85 ± 13	0.36
BMI (kg/m2)	28.6 ± 4.0	28.8 ± 3.6	29.0 ± 4.9	0.89
BSA (m2)	1.93 ± 0.20	1.95 ± 0.22	2.01 ± 0.15	0.121
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	140 ± 14	143 ± 18	140 ± 16	0.93
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	82 ± 15	85 ± 20	82 ± 11	0.90
Heart rate (min−1)	67 ± 15	68 ± 10	69 ± 11	0.48
Aortic diameter (mm)	33 ± 7	38 ± 7	35 ± 6	0.52
Aortic orifice area (cm2)	2.09 ± 0.39	1.28 ± 0.18	0.94 ± 0.21	<0.001*
Aortic orifice area index (cm2/m2)	1.10 ± 0.24	0.66 ± 0.06	0.47 ± 0.11	<0.001*
Morphology of aortic valve (tricuspid | bicuspid)	11 | 3	5 | 3	5 | 10	0.10
LV-EF (%)	64 ± 6	66 ± 6	67 ± 6	0.19
LV-SV-Index (ml/m2)	45 ± 12	42 ± 10	44 ± 10	0.89
LV-EDV-Index (ml/cm)	0.80 ± 0.20	0.75 ± 0.15	0.76 ± 0.18	0.63
LV-Mass-Index (g/cm)	0.79 ± 0.19	0.93 ± 0.21	1.08 ± 0.36	0.036*
Relative wall mass (g/ml)	1.00 ± 0.15	1.28 ± 0.39	1.43 ± 0.42	0.001*

^*p<0.05