Main clinical characteristics among the examined patient groups
Parameter | Main group (n = 32) | Comparison group (n = 20) | Significance of differences, p |
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Age (years), Me (25%; 75%) | 64 (42; 65) | 57 (48; 65) | 0.31 |
Males, n (%) | 62.5% | 60.0% | 0.56 |
Females, n (%) | 37.5% | 40.0% | 0.52 |
Height (cm), Me (25%; 75%) | 170 (164; 176) | 170 (166; 172) | 0.83 |
Body weight (kg), Me (25%; 75%) | 83 (75; 93) | 87 (80; 95) | 0.59 |
BMI (kg/m2), Me (25%; 75%) | 28.4 (25.20; 32.39) | 30.1 (27.68; 33.25) | 0.59 |
CHF, II FC according to NYHA, n (%) | 80.6% | 78.3% | 0.83 |
CHF, III FC according to NYHA, n (%) | 19.4% | 21.7% | 0.83 |
BMI: body mass index; CHF: chronic heart failure; FC: functional class; NYHA: New York Heart Association; n: number; Me (LQ; UQ): data presented as median with low and upper quartiles
NA: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. EEK: Methodology, Investigation, Resources, Writing—original draft. LEK: Visualization, Writing—review & editing. AAR: Data curation, Investigation. YGS: Formal analysis. All authors read and approved the submitted version.
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 2013 Helsinki Declaration and the 1997 Geneva Convention on Human Rights. The conduct of this study was approved by the local Ethics Committee of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Saratov State Medical University named after V.I. Razumovsky” of the Ministry of Health of Russia on November 07, 2023, Protocol #7.
Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.
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The datasets that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. If someone wants to request the data you should contact Natalya Akimova, astraveritas@yandex.ru.
The work was carried out within the scope of the government commission of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation titled “Development of a portable software and hardware complex for remote monitoring of the function of the cardiovascular system, as well as automation of the 6-minute walking test for patients suffering from chronic non-infectious diseases”, [No. 056-03-2024-071] dated January 24th, 2024. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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