Table 4 Prevalence of thromboembolic risk factors in patients with LASEC and those without
From: Left atrial spontaneous echo contrast occurring in patients with low CHADS2 or CHA2DS2-VASc scores
CHADS2 group | CHA2DS2-VASc group | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Parameters | LASEC absent (n = 272) | LASEC present (n = 77) | P | LASEC absent (n = 180) | LASEC present (n = 41) | P |
Congestive heart failure, n (%) | 26 (10) | 30 (39) | < 0.001 | 13 (7) | 15 (37) | < 0.001 |
Hypertension, n (%) | 104 (38) | 27 (35) | 0.61 | 57 (32) | 9 (22) | 0.21 |
Age 65–75 | 104 (37) | 32 (40) | 0.64 | 41 (22) | 6 (14) | 0.21 |
Age ≥ 75 years, n (%) | 17 (6) | 3 (4) | 0.41 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | – |
Diabetes mellitus, n (%) | 14 (5) | 1 (1) | 0.10 | 6 (3) | 0 (0) | 0.11 |
Stroke/TIA, n (%) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | – | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | – |
Vascular disease, n (%) | 5 (2) | 4 (5) | 0.13 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | – |
Female, n (%) | 67 (24) | 26 (34) | 0.12 | 28 (16) | 11 (27) | 0.10 |