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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2015 Sep 23;44(3):279–287. doi: 10.1007/s10840-015-0058-5

Table 3.

Unadjusted outcomes through last follow-up

Nominal
(n=1559)
AV adjusted
(n=2294)
p value
(vs. nominal)
VV adjusted
(n=604)
p value
(vs. nominal)
AV and VV adjusted
(n=852)
p value
(vs. nominal)
Follow-up, days 956 (328) 983 (322) 0.009 944 (344) 0.5 952 (330) 0.8
PCT activity 7 (4.2) 7.5 (4.6) 0.0005 6.9 (4.3) 0.8 7.3 (4.2) 0.2
  Change from baseline 0.00 (1.4) −0.03 (1.6) 0.5 −0.09 (1.5) 0.2 0.03 (1.5) 0.8
HRV SDANN 73.6 (20.7) 72.9 (18.8) 0.5 73 (21.4) 0.7 73.5 (22.4) 0.9
  Change from baseline 0.83 (9.8) 0.92 (10.2) 0.9 0.21 (9.7) 0.5 0.71 (10.2) 0.9
HRV footprint 29 (8.9) 28.8 (9) 0.8 29.1 (10.5) 0.9 28.9 (9.6) 0.9
  Change from baseline 0.24 (3.8) 0.14 (3.9) 0.7 0.63 (0.9) 0.3 −0.13 (4.5) 0.2
HRV mean HR 77 (8) 77.1 (8.2) 0.8 77.2 (10.2) 0.8 76.5 (9.5) 0.4
  Change from baseline −0.45 (3.4) −0.47 (3.7) 0.9 −0.28 (4.4) 0.6 −0.08 (4.9) 0.2
AF burden >5 % 27.7 % 17.9 % <0.0001 28.3 % 0.8 18.9 % <0.0001
  Change from baseline 4.00 % (21.0 %) 4.00 % (18.0 %) 0.8 3.00 % (19.0 %) 0.9 4.00 % (17.0 %) 0.6
Atrial pacing (%) 33 (37) 31 (35) 0.6 29 (36) 0.001 32 (37) 0.8
  Change from baseline 1.00 (32) 4.00 (29) 0.03 2.00 (32) 0.9 5.00 (32) 0.06
LV pacing <95 % 17.3 % 17.8 % 0.6 19.2 % 0.3 18.5 % 0.4
  Change from baseline 0.00 % (13.0 %) −1.00 % (14.0 %) 0.8 −1.00 % (12.0 %) 0.046 −2.00 % (15.0 %) 0.09
ATP therapy 27.6 % 29.5 % 0.2 31.0 % 0.1 32.7 % 0.006
Shock during follow-up 13.1 % 13.4 % 0.8 12.9 % 0.9 16.7 % 0.01
Death 18.6 % 19.1 % 0.7 20.7 % 0.3 19.2 % 0.7

Numbers are % or mean (standard deviation)

AV atrioventricular timing, VV ventricular-to-ventricular timing, ATP anti-tachycardia pacing, AF atrial fibrillation, LV left ventricular, HRV heart rate variability, SDANN standard deviation of the average NN intervals, HR heart rate