Skip to main content
. 2022 Jun 20;22:280. doi: 10.1186/s12872-022-02724-4

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical profile for patients with cardiac disease stratified by HADS-A (n = 8998)

HADS-A < 8 n = 6107 (68) HADS-A ≥ 8 n = 2891 (32) p values
n (%) n (%)
Sex  < 0.0001a
 Male 4491 (74) 1841 (64)
Age, mean (SD) 67 (12) 64 (12)  < 0.0001b
Diagnosis 0.0003
 Ischemic heart disease 2850 (47) 1488 (51)
 Arrhythmia 2363 (39) 998 (35)
 Heart failure 540 (9) 243 (8)
 Valvular heart disease 354 (6) 162 (6)
Length of stay, mean (SD) 2.1 (2.8) 2.4 (3.3) 0.0002c
Co-morbidity
 Hypertension 2524 (41) 1363 (47)
 Diabetes 823 (13) 538 (19)
 Ventricular arrhythmia 396 (6) 199 (7)
 Ischaemic heart disease 3700 (61) 1889 (65)
 Myocardial infarction 1596 (26) 834 (29)
 PCI 1547 (25) 787 (27)
 CABG 374 (6) 187 (6)
 Heart failure 1481 (24) 759 (26)
 Renal disease 225 (4) 128 (4)
 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 529 (9) 381 (13)
Smoking (daily use) d  < 0.0001
 Yes 621 (10) 420 (15)
 BMI ≥ 30 d 0.0005
 Yes 1392 (24) 746 (28)
Alcohol > recommendation d, e 0.1850
 Yes 397 (7) 206 (8)
 Marital status  < 0.0001
 Married 4050 (66) 1751 (61)
 Divorced 751 (12) 480 (17)
 Widowed 778 (13) 358 (12)
 Unmarried 528 (7) 302 (10)
Educational level d  < 0.0001
 Higher 1517 (25) 539 (19)
 Upper secondary or vocational 2660 (44) 1285 (46)
 Basic 1820 (30) 988 (35)
Tu-comorbidity index score 0.0081
 0 1407 (23) 640 (22)
 1 2596 (43) 1220 (42)
 2 1403 (23) 628 (22)
 3 +  701 (11) 403 (14)
Charlson comorbidity index  < 0.0001
 0 2118 (35) 887 (31)
 1 1795 (29) 816 (28)
 2 1061 (17) 493 (17)
 3 +  1133 (19) 695 (24)
Psychotropic medication 0.1442
 Yes 119 (1.9) 70 (2.4)

aχ2 test

bT-test

cNon-parametric Wilcoxon signed rank test

dMissing data from 1 to 8%

eAlcohol intake above high-risk limit is defined by The Danish National Board of Health to be a weekly intake > 21 standard drinks for men and > 14 standard drinks for women