Table 3 Statistics correlations between demographic and echocardiographic characteristics of the study population and the SF-36 items

Demographics

 Age (years)

p 0.27

p 0.09

p 0.7

p 0.13

p 0.20

p 0.73

p 0.12

p 0.89

 Gender (M/F)

p 0.06

p 0.19

p 0.12

p 0.46

p 0.25

p 0.22

p 0.49

p 0.21

 TimeHTx

p 0.22

p 0.29

p 0.92

p 0.78

p 0.45

p 0.24

p 0.19

p 0.92

Echocardiographic variable

 Flat-bifasic

p 0.27

p 0.16

p 0.67

p 0.000^

p 0.001^

p 0.22

p 0.21

p 0.02*