Table 4.
Demographicand clinical predictors of patients with or without thyro-cardiac disease (n=146)
| Variable | Overall n %) |
TCDs present, n (%) |
No TCDs present, n (%) |
OR (95% CI) |
p-value |
| Age ≥60 years | 35 (24.0) | 11(7.5) | 24 (16.4) | 0.8 (0.4–1.4) | 0.3 |
| Female sex | 136 (93.1) | 36 (24.6) | 100 (68.5) | 0.7 (0.2–2.7) | 0.5 |
| Duration of symptom ≥24 months | 117 (80.1) | 32 (21.9) | 85 (58.2) | 0.7(0.4–1.6) | 0.3 |
| Hypertension (BP ≥140/90mmHg) | 71 (48.6) | 16 (10.9) | 55 (37.7) | 0.8 (0.4–1.3) | 0.2 |
| Diabetes mellitus present | 12 (8.2) | 4 (2.7) | 8 (5.5) | 1.3 (0.6–3.1) | 0.4 |
| Anemia (Hb; male < 13gm/dl or female <12gm/dl) |
13 (8.9) | 6 (4.1) | 7 (4.8) | 1.9 (0.9–3.7) | 0.08 |
| Comorbidity present | 25 (17.1) | 4 (2.7) | 21 (14.4) | 0.6 (0.2–1.5) | 0.2 |
| Heart rate ≥120 bpm | 30 (20.5) | 8 (5.5) | 22 (15.1) | 1.0 (0.5–2.0) | 0.5 |
| Atrial fibrillation present | 16 (10.9) | 11 (7.5) | 5 (3.4) | 3.3 (2.1–5.3) | <0.001 |
Bpm: beats per minute, CI: confidence interval, Hb: hemoglobin, N: number, OR: odds ratio, TCDs: thyro-cardiac disease