Table 2: Differences in baseline characteristics in patients with or without SEC.
No SEC | SEC | ||||
mean | SD | mean | SD | p-value | |
Age | 63.89 | 10.6 | 68.48 | 7.69 | < 0.001** |
Number of previous AF Ablations | 1.77 | 0.77 | 1.71 | 0.75 | 0.53 |
LV-EF (%) | 54.52 | 7.58 | 50.6 | 9.63 | < 0.001** |
LA-Diameter (mm) | 38.66 | 11.78 | 45.88 | 9.52 | < 0.001** |
CHADS2 | 1.29 | 1.1 | 1.67 | 1.01 | 0.01* |
CHA2DS2-VASc | 2.41 | 1.64 | 3.1 | 1.36 | < 0.001** |
Note: * = Significant and ** = Highly significant.