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Table 3 Pearson's correlation analysis of demographic, clinical, and laboratory variables and incidence of RAF

From: Pre-procedural high serum visfatin and tumor necrosis factor-α might predict recurrent atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation

Variables

AF recurrence

“r”

p

Type of AF

0.124

0.181

Age

0.311

0.001

Male gender

0.062

0.506

BMI (kg/m2)

0.342

< 0.001

Maximal LAD (mm)

0.227

0.014

LVEF (%)

− 0.199

0.032

SBP (mmHg)

0.141

0.132

HbA1c (%)

0.114

0.221

Serum triglyceride (mg/dl)

0.264

0.004

Serum CRP (ng/ml)

0.288

0.002

Serum IL-6 (pg/ml)

0.212

0.022

Serum TNF-α (pg/ml)

0.337

< 0.001

Serum visfatin (ng/ml)

0.406

< 0.001

Serum adiponectin (µg/ml)

0.374

< 0.001

  1. p value indicates the significance of “r”; p < 0.05 indicates significant difference; p > 0.05 indicates non-significant difference
  2. r Pearson's correlation coefficient, AF atrial fibrillation, LAD maximal left atrial diameter, LVEF left ventricular ejection fraction, SBP systolic blood pressure, HbA1c glycosylated hemoglobin, CRP C-reactive protein, IL-6 interleukin-6, TNF-α tumor necrosis factor-α
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