Disease Markers

Research Article

Identification of Circulating lncRNA Expression Profiles in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Table 1

Clinical characteristics of AF patients and matched controls.


Parameters	AF patients ()	Controls ()		value

Age (years)			0.25	0.821
Male/female	10/10	12/8	0.40	0.583
Body mass index (kg/m²)			1.01	0.315
Smoking	2	2	0	—
Alcohol abuse	0	0	0	—
NYHA class I/II/III/IV	20/0/0/0	20/0/0/0	0	—
SBP (mmHg)			0.29	0.782
DBP (mmHg)			0.39	0.694
LAD (cm)			7.45	0.008
LVEF (%)			0.79	0.434

AF: atrial fibrillation; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; NYHA: New York Heart Association; LAD: left atrium diameter; LVEF: left ventricular ejection fraction.