Table 1.
Baseline characteristics
| In first DD (n = 138) |
Not in first DD (n = 62) |
P | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 64 | (54–73) | 65 | (56–72) | 0.74 |
| Female sex | 47 | (34.0) | 31 | (50.1) | 0.046 |
| BMI | 26 | (24–29) | 26 | (24–29) | 0.90 |
| Current smoking | 56 | (40.9) | 23 | (36.9) | 0.67 |
| History of: | |||||
| Hypertension | 78 | (56.3) | 41 | (66.5) | 0.22 |
| COPD | 26 | (18.8) | 13 | (21.6) | 0.66 |
| Diabetes mellitus | 9 | (6.5) | 5 | (7.2) | 0.84 |
| Extracardiac atherosclerosis | 25 | (18.4) | 19 | (30.0) | 0.09 |
| Connective tissue disease | 17 | (12.3) | 2 | (3.0) | 0.10 |
| Myocardial infarction | 14 | (10.2) | 7 | (11.0) | 0.88 |
| Neurological dysfunction | 17 | (12.6) | 12 | (19.2) | 0.24 |
| Previous aortic dissection | 7 | (5.2%) | 1 | (1.4%) | 0.99 |
| Cardiac surgery | 13 | (9.6) | 4 | (6.8) | 0.56 |
| Bicuspid aortic valve | 10 | (12.3) | 2 | (3.4) | 0.36 |
Table depicts the baseline characteristics of patients with and without the inclusion of acute aortic dissection (AD) in the first differential diagnosis (DD)
BMI body mass index, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease