Table 1. Sociodemographic and hospital-level characteristics of multiple myeloma patients hospitalized with and without atrial fibrillation.
n = unweighted number of observations; wt% = weighted percentages
| wt% | |||
| Atrial fibrillation | P-value | ||
| Yes | No | ||
| n = 8,926 | n = 59,341 | ||
| Age | <0.001 | ||
| Less than 70 | 25.35 | 52.01 | |
| 70 years and above | 74.65 | 47.99 | |
| Gender | <0.001 | ||
| Male | 60.94 | 54.58 | |
| Female | 39.06 | 45.42 | |
| Race/Ethnicity | <0.001 | ||
| Non-Hispanic white | 75.72 | 61.81 | |
| Non-Hispanic black | 14.29 | 23.40 | |
| Hispanic | 5.29 | 8.91 | |
| Non-Hispanic other | 4.70 | 5.88 | |
| Median household income national quartiles | <0.001 | ||
| Quartile 1 | 22.45 | 27.42 | |
| Quartile 2 | 24.17 | 24.78 | |
| Quartile 3 | 27.1 | 24.34 | |
| Quartile 4 | 26.3 | 23.46 | |
| Insurance type | <0.001 | ||
| Medicaid | 2.58 | 6.95 | |
| Medicare | 84.00 | 65.93 | |
| Private | 11.56 | 23.59 | |
| Other | 1.86 | 3.52 | |
| Hospital region | <0.001 | ||
| Northeast | 19.87 | 21.03 | |
| Midwest | 26.25 | 22.60 | |
| South | 35.33 | 38.46 | |
| West | 18.5 | 17.91 | |
| Hospital location | <0.001 | ||
| Rural | 6.53 | 6.33 | |
| Urban non-teaching | 22.42 | 18.48 | |
| Urban teaching | 71.05 | 75.19 | |
| Mortality | <0.001 | ||
| No | 93.76 | 95.40 | |
| Yes | 6.24 | 4.60 | |
| Admission type | <0.001 | ||
| Elective | 9.86 | 16.95 | |
| Non-elective | 90.14 | 83.05 | |
| Length of stay | <0.001 | ||
| Five days or less | 52.85 | 57.55 | |
| More than five days | 47.15 | 42.45 | |
| Charlson Comorbidity Index | <0.001 | ||
| 0–4 | 42.81 | 62.03 | |
| 5–7 | 42.08 | 26.45 | |
| ⩾8 | 15.11 | 11.52 | |