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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 7.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cardiol. 2018 Sep 1;266:112–118. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.02.007

Table 1.

Characteristics of HFpEF and HFrEF, stratified by presence of AF

HFpEF HFrEF
Variable AF (n=794,013) No AF (n=1,094,287) p AF (n=858,435) No AF (n=1,413,994) p
Age (Mean ± SD, years) 79.6 ± 10.3 73.1 ± 13.8 <0.001 75.8 ± 12.0 69.2 ± 15.1 <0.001
Women 64.3 64.0 <0.001 40.7 42.7 <0.001
Race (%)
 White 84.0 68.8 80.0 65.1
 Black 7.8 19.5 <0.001 11.2 22.6 <0.001
 Other 8.2 11.7 8.8 12.2
Primary Payer (%)
 Medicare 87.8 77.2 81.7 68.8
 Medicaid 2.5 7.1 <0.001 4.3 9.7 <0.001
 Private including HMO 7.9 11.6 10.7 14.6
 Self pay 0.8 2.4 1.9 4.5
Hospital Region (%)
 Northeast 25.3 23.2 23.4 22.1
 Midwest 26.6 24.4 <0.001 25.7 23.2 <0.001
 South 32.9 38.0 36.4 40.9
 West 15.2 14.4 14.5 13.7
Hospital Setting (%)
Academic 44.8 45.3 <0.001 46.1 47.4 <0.001
Urban 89.2 88.0 <0.001 88.4 88.1 <0.001
Hospital Size (%)
Small 12.9 12.4 11.7 11.0
Medium 26.1 25.6 <0.001 23.7 23.5 <0.001
Large 61.0 62.0 64.6 65.5
Comorbidity
 Anemia 32.4 35.8 <0.001 26.8 26.8 0.82
 Coronary artery disease 42.1 41.1 <0.001 59.9 58.6 <0.001
 Chronic pulmonary disease 38.2 37.6 <0.001 33.0 31.8 <0.001
 Chronic renal failure 34.9 39.1 <0.001 37.2 35.7 <0.001
 Diabetes 36.8 46.6 <0.001 37.4 42.8 <0.001
 Hypertension 68.9 67.9 <0.001 65.1 64.3 <0.001
 Hypothyroidism 21.0 16.3 <0.001 17.2 12.3 <0.001
 Liver disease 2.0 2.7 <0.001 2.3 2.6 <0.001
 Obesity 16 21.4 <0.001 12 13.2 <0.001
 Peripheral vascular disorders 12 12.1 0.06 12.6 12.6 0.31
 Pulmonary circulation disorders 7.1 6.2 <0.001 3.8 3.0 <0.001
 Valvular Disease 9.4 6.7 <0.001 7.1 4.9 <0.001
Elixhauser Comorbidity Summary Score (Mean ± SD) 7.8 ± 7.1 8.2 ± 7.2 <0.001 7.2 ± 6.9 6.9 ± 7.0 <0.001
CHADS2 Score (Mean ± SD) 2.9 ± 0.9 2.7 ± 0.9 <0.001 2.7 ± 0.9 2.5 ± 0.9 <0.001
CHA2DS2-VASc Score (Mean ± SD) 4.5 ± 1.2 4.2 ± 1.3 <0.001 4.1 ± 1.3 3.7 ± 1.4 <0.001
In-hospital Mortality (%) 4.7 4.0 <0.001 5.3 5.1 <0.001

Abbreviations: HFpEF=heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; HFrEF=heart failure with reduced ejection fraction; AF=atrial fibrillation.