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Table 1 Baseline clinical characteristics of study patients with and without MVAEs

From: ST-segment elevation predicts the occurrence of malignant ventricular arrhythmia events in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

 

Non-MVAE group (n = 173)

MVAE group (n = 112)

p value

Age, years

57.23 ± 15.9

57.87 ± 13.2

0.7148

Male sex, n (%)

127(73.4%)

93(83%)

0.0806

Symptom-to-balloon time, hours

2.79 ± 1.79

2.35 ± 1.42

0.0285

Hypertension, n (%)

79(45.7%)

58(51.8%)

0.3741

Diabetes mellitus, n (%)

75(43.4%)

49(43.7%)

0.9552

Smoker, n (%)

70(40.5%)

47(42%)

0.8978

Left ventricular ejection fraction (%)

57.72 ± 11.6

58.29 ± 12.15

0.176

Left ventricular end diastolic diameter (mm)

46.79 ± 18.5

46.31 ± 19.6

0.3735

Blood potassium concentration at admission (mmol/L)

4.04 ± 0.34

4.01 ± 0.38

0.266

Infarct-related artery

Left anterior descending artery, n (%)

51

41

 

Right coronary artery, n (%)

96

53

0.0867

Left circumflex artery, n (%)

23

11

 

Left main artery, n (%)

3

7

 

STE max (mV)

3.38 ± 1.27

6.62 ± 2.84

p < 0.0001

  1. STE max = maximal ST-segment elevation in the lead with the most prominent elevation, MVAE = malignant ventricular arrhythmia event