Table 1.

General conditions of patients with CHDs group and patients with RVHDs group.

Characteristics	CHDs (n = 16)	RVHDs (n = 14)	Statistic	P
Gender (male/female)	9/7	6/8	χ 2 = 0.536	0.464
Age ($\stackrel{-}{x}$ ± s, years)	11.94 ± 1.42	45.50 ± 1.58	F = 0.068	<0.05
Expression of HOTAIR	0.111 ± 0.015∗	0.055 ± 0.007	F = 3.171	0.002

^∗Compared with RVHDs group, P < 0.05; CHDs: congenital heart diseases; RVHDs: rheumatic valvular heart diseases.