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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of the studied population

From: Analysis of serum levels of HIF-1α and IL-6 in patients with acute stanford type a aortic dissection

Characteristics

Healthy (Mean ± SD)

ATAAD(Mean ± SD)

p value

Age (years)

47 ± 8.6

49.83 ± 5.57

0.246

Male (%)

12(63.1%)

70(85.4%)

0.026

Body weight (kg)

61.59 ± 7.93

62.75 ± 3.82

0.569

Abdominal circumference(cm)

76.05 ± 3.70

83.67 ± 6.26

0.0001<

Smoke (%)

2(10.53%)

43(51.81%)

0.001

Alcoholism (%)

0

9(12%)

0.202

Hypertension (%)

0

70(85.4%)

0.0001<

Diabetes mellitus (%)

0

5(6.1%)

0.58

Coronary artery disease (%)

0

12(14.6%)

0.116

Pericardial effusion

0

23(28%)

0.006

HIF-1α (pg/mL)

19.54 ± 8.07

10.72(7.28,14.92)

0.0001<

IL-6 (pg/mL)

1.13(0.98,1.42)

3.12(1.97,9.13)

0.0001<

  1. Continuous normally distributed variables were expressed as mean(± standard deviation) and not-normally distributed variables as medians (interquartile range)