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. 2021 Jan 26;13(1):11–20. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v13.i1.11

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of primary hospitalizations for native valve infective endocarditis by diabetes mellitus in the United States from 2004–2014

Demographics and Co-morbidities NVIE
No DM (%)
DM (%)
P value
Age (yr), mean (SD) 58.2 ± 19 63.37 ± 14 < 0.0001
Gender < 0.0001
Male 58.4 55.6
Female 41.6 44.4
Race < 0.0001
White 71.9 62.5
Black 15.9 20.0
Hispanic 7.1 11.2
Asian 1.8 2.4
Native Americans 0.6 1.0
Other 2.7 2.9
Co-morbidities
Tobacco abuse 14.8 9.0 < 0.0001
Hypothyroidism 6.2 9.6 < 0.0001
Hyperlipidemia 11.5 25.1 < 0.0001
Valvular heart diseases 21.6 19.0 < 0.0001
Chronic kidney disease 3.8 7.9 < 0.0001
Obesity 1.8 7.2 < 0.0001
Congestive heart failure 26.2 34.2 < 0.0001
Chronic liver disease 9.3 12.4 < 0.0001
Hypertension 39.1 64.8 < 0.0001
HIV 2.6 0.9 < 0.0001
Atrial fibrillation 18.9 22.4 < 0.0001
Pulmonary hypertension 5.8 6.5 < 0.0001
Coronary artery disease 14.2 29.7 < 0.0001
Peripheral artery disease 2.4 5.5 < 0.0001
Hemodialysis 15.0 27.8 < 0.0001
History of cardiac arrest 0.0 0.1 0.011
History of drug abuse 11.9 3.8 < 0.0001
Congenital heart disease 1.8 0.8 < 0.0001
Rheumatic heart disease 11.8 9.6 < 0.0001

DM: Diabetes mellitus; HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus; SD: Standard deviation; NVIE: Native valve infective endocarditis.