Table 1 Patient characteristics
Atrial tissues | Blood samples | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lone AF | Mixed AF | Donor | lone AF | |
N=34 (%) | N=30 (%) | N=3 (%) | N=91 (%) | |
Age, years, mean ± SD (range) | 53.8 ± 9.6 | 66.3 ± 9.8 | 50 ± 15.6 | 57.8 ± 11.5 |
(31–71) | (32–86) | (32–60) | (25–84) | |
Sex, male | 28 (82.4) | 17 (56.7) | 2 (67) | 67 (73.6) |
Race, Caucasian | 32 (94.1) | 29 (96.7) | 3 (100) | 87 (95.6) |
Unknown or Other | 2 (5.9) | 1 (3.3) | 0 | 4 (4.4) |
Cardiac Disease | ND | |||
CAD | 0 | 3 (9.1) | 0 | |
Valvular disease | 0 | 21 (63.6) | 0 | |
CAD + Valve disease | 0 | 6 (18.2) | 0 | |
Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
AF Burden | ND | |||
Paroxysmal | 12 (35.3) | 6 (20.0) | 39 (42.9) | |
Persistent | 6 (17.6) | 5 (16.7) | 33 (36.3) | |
Permanent | 16 (47.1) | 19 (63.3) | 13 (14.3) | |
Unknown | 0 | 0 | 6 (6.6) | |
Rhythm at the time of sampling | ND | ND | ||
Sinus | 16 (47.1) | 10 (33.3) | ||
AF | 18 (52.9) | 20 (66.7) | ||
Unknown | 0 | 0 | ||