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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Heart Fail. 2017 Dec 11;20(4):651–659. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1091

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics preceding incident clinical outcomes by HF subtype

Incident HF P ANOVA No HF Unclassified HF

HFpEF HFmrEF HFrEF
N=811 N=200 N=1048 N=26071 N=690
Demographics
Age, years 71 (9) 72 (8) 70 (10) 0.0003 58 (14) 75 (7)
Women, n (%) 477 (59) 95 (48)* 379 (36) <0.0001 14151 (54) 366 (53)
Race 0.15
 White, n (%) 692 (85) 175 (88) 917 (88) 21160 (81) 584 (85)
 Black, n (%) 84 (10) 21 (11) 92 (9) 2394 (9) 90 (13)
 Other, n (%) 34 (4) 4 (2) 37 (4) 2465 (9) 16 (2)

Clinical covariates
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg 142 (22) 142 (22) 142 (22) 0.99 129 (20) 142 (22)
Diastolic blood pressure, mmHg 73 (11) 72 (11) 75 (12) 0.0001 74 (10) 71 (12)
Hypertension treatment, n (%) 435 (54) 106 (53) 550 (52) 0.88 6846 (26) 412 (60)
Heart rate, bpm 68 (11) 68 (11) 68 (12) 0.87 67 (11) 69 (12)
Body mass index, kg/m2 28.6 (5.5) 27.8 (4.6)* 27.9 (4.7) 0.002 26.8 (4.8) 27.4 (5.2)
Diabetes mellitus, n (%) 156 (19) 39 (20) 232 (22) 0.30 1980 (8) 158 (23)
Diabetes medications, n (%) 97 (12) 29 (15) 123 (12) 0.54 1149 (4) 93 (14)
Current smoker, n (%) 108 (13) 27 (14) 206 (20) 0.0007 5800 (22) 91 (13)
Modest alcohol use, n (%) 130 (16) 45 (23) 215 (21) 0.03 6009 (23) 98 (14)
Myocardial infarction, n (%) 66 (8) 22 (11) 184 (18) <0.0001 779 (3) 87 (13)
Coronary heart disease, n (%) 131 (16) 47 (24)* 260 (25) <0.0001 1341 (5) 190 (28)
Cerebrovascular disease, n (%) 32 (4) 10 (5) 71 (7) 0.03 370 (1) 33 (5)
Hyperlipidemia treatment, n (%) 76 (9) 16 (8) 100 (10) 0.90 1897 (7) 53 (8)

Laboratory covariates
Total cholesterol 211 (40) 209 (38) 209 (45) 0.63 209 (41) 209 (39)
HDL cholesterol 50 (15) 47 (14)* 47 (14) <0.0001 52 (16) 51 (16)
eGFR, mL/min/1.73m2 67 (19) 63 (19)* 66 (20) 0.048 76 (18) 63 (18)

ECG covariates
Atrial fibrillation, n (%) 43 (5) 19 (10) 61 (6) 0.07 274 (1) 45 (7)
Left ventricular hypertrophy, n (%) 46 (6) 13 (7) 99 (9) 0.006 642 (2) 56(8)
Left bundle branch block, n (%) 16 (2) 5 (3) 59 (6) 0.0002 156 (0.6) 15 (2)

P for ANOVA denotes testing for between-group differences among incident HF subtypes (HFpEF, HFmrEF, HFpEF)

*

P<0.05 for HFmrEF vs HFpEF,

P<0.05 for HFmrEF vs HFrEF