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. 2021 May 27;11:11171. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-90693-7

Table 2.

Characteristics of the study subjects classified by the presence of rare gene variants (likely pathogenic or variants of uncertain significance).

Characteristic All subjects (n = 151) Subjects with relevant variants (n = 57) Subjects without relevant variants (n = 94) P value
Age, mean ± SD (range), years 54 ± 10 (20–89) 55 ± 12 (20–89) 54 ± 9 (35–78) 0.38
Male gender, % 82.1 82.8 81.7 0.87
Prior cardiac disease diagnosis, % 49.7 47.3 51.1 0.65
Heart failure, % 8.3 9.3 7.8 0.76
Patchy/diffuse fibrosis at autopsy, % 88.1 91.4 86.0 0.32
Heart weight at autopsy, mean (SD), g 546 ± 100 528 ± 104 557 ± 97 0.05
BMI, mean (SD), kg/m2 32.2 ± 6.9 30.3 ± 5.9 33.4 ± 7.2 0.003

BMI body mass index, SD standard deviation.