Table 4. Electrocardiographic findings of patients who presented or did not present with notching 3 hours post sotalol administration in the discovery and replication cohort.
Discovery cohort | Replication cohort | Pvalue | |||
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Notching | No Notch | Notching | No Notch | ||
Number of subjects | 40 | 445 | 51 | 436 | |
Female (%) | 40(100%) | 263(59%) | 50(98%) | 247(57%) | <0.0001 |
ΔQTcF (%) | 7.7±4† | 5.1±3.3‡ | 9±3.7† | 5.2±3.4‡ | <0.0001 |
ΔTAmp (%) | 36.7±11.9† | 11.3±14.2‡ | 32.1±17.5† | 10.4±13.4‡ | <0.0001 |
ΔTpTe (%) | 53.6±30† | 10.4±11.8‡ | 51±38.4† | 11.7±12.1‡ | <0.0001 |
Principal Component 1 | -2.5±1.5† | 0.3±1.1‡ | -2.3±1.8† | 0.3±1.1‡ | <0.0001 |
Principal Component 2 | 0.7±1.1 † | -0.1±0.7 ‡ | 0.3±1 † | 0±0.7 ‡ | <0.0001 |
Principal Component 3 | 0.5±1.2 † | 0±0.5 ‡ | 0.3±1.3 † | 0±0.5 ‡ | <0.0001 |
Pvalue: One-way Anova with Tukey’s post-test used.
†: Significant vs. No notch groups (discovery and validation cohort);
‡: Significant vs. notching groups (discovery and validation cohort).