. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 28.

Published in final edited form as: J Osteopath Med. 2021 Mar 10;121(6):529–537. doi: 10.1515/jom-2020-0260

Table 1:

Univariate analysis of new onset atrial fibrillation in trauma patients based on patient demographics, select medical comorbidities, and type of trauma.

		New onset atrial fibrillation		p-value
		No (n=1,013,689) n (%)	Yes (n=15,424) n (%)

Demographics
Age, years, median, IQR		60 (40–78)	77 (68–84)	<0.001
Sex	Men	484,808 (47.8)	8,018 (52.0)	<0.001
	Women	528,881 (52.2)	7,406 (48.0)
Primary insurance provider	Medicare/Medicaid	592,961 (63.9)	12,528 (83.4)	<0.001
	Private insurance	245,330 (26.4)	2,214 (14.7)
	Self pay/unknown	89,692 (9.7)	285 (1.9)

Medical comorbidities
Obesity		73,678 (7.3)	1,707 (11.1)	<0.001
Diabetes mellitus		156,405 (15.4)	3,560 (23.1)	<0.001
Hypertension		478,547 (47.2)	11,113 (72.1)	<0.001
Congestive heart failure		50,727 (5.0)	2,462 (16.0)	<0.001
Valvular heart disorder		38,258 (3.7)	1,648 (10.7)	<0.001
Chronic renal failure		83,009 (9.2)	2,675 (17.3)	<0.001
Peripheral vascular disease		53,646 (5.3)	2,086 (13.5)	<0.001
Charlson comorbidity index, median, IQR		0 (0–2)	2 (1–3)	<0.001
CHA₂DS₂VASc score, median, IQR		2 (1–3)	3 (2–4)	<0.001

Trauma type^*
Transportation		619,110 (61.1)	11,152 (72.3)	<0.001
Falls		410,229 (40.5)	5,948 (38.6)	<0.001
Nature		18,650 (1.8)	34 (0.2)	<0.001
Accident		125,421 (12.4)	1,057 (6.9)	<0.001
Suicide/self inflicted		72,545 (7.2)	118 (0.8)	<0.001
Homicide/purposefully inflicted		34,850 (3.4)	80 (0.5)	<0.001
Legal intervention^**		1,126 (0.1)	−(0.01)	<0.001
Accidentally inflicted		2,632 (0.3)	17 (0.1)	<0.001
War		55 (0.01)	0 (0)	0.4

Percentages add to greater than 100%, as patients may carry more than one trauma diagnosis.

^**

Data censored given restrictions in publishing values of n<10. CHA₂DS₂VASc, congestive heart failure, hypertension, age, diabetes, previous stroke/transient ischemic attack, vascular disease, and sex; IQR, interquartile range.