Table 3.

Clinical Characteristics of the Patients with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy in the IPAC Study, According to Variant Status.^*

Characteristic	No Truncating Variant (N = 68)	TTN Truncating Variant (N = 11)	P Value
Age — yr	30±6	28±6	0.25
No. of pregnancies	2.8±1.9	2.9±2.3	0.84
No. of births	2.1±1.2	2.1±1.5	0.92
Family history of cardiomyopathy — no. (%)	7 (10)	1 (9)	1.00
Hypertension — no. (%)	35 (51)	1 (9)	0.009
Twin gestation — no. (%)	15 (22)	1 (9)	0.45
Ejection fraction — %
At enrollment	35±9	30±12	0.14
At 1 yr	54±8	44±17	0.005†

^*Plus–minus values are means ±SD.

^†P = 0.04 by the Wilcoxon rank-sum test.