Table 1 The clinical characteristics of the patients.

From: Radiomics utilization to differentiate nonfunctional adenoma in essential hypertension and functional adenoma in primary aldosteronism

Clinical data

EH (n = 56)

PA (n = 89)

p-value

Sex, male (%)

29 (51.7%)

53 (59.5%)

0.358

Age, years

61.2 ± 11.5

52.5 ± 10.8

 < 0.01

BMI, kg/m2

25.21 ± 4.52

24.26 ± 3.89

0.284

Duration of hypertension, years

4.19 ± 6.87

7.26 ± 7.22

0.059

Systolic blood pressure, mmHg

146.53 ± 23.94

151.33 ± 20.49

0.342

Diastolic blood pressure, mmHg

86.00 ± 14.78

91.57 ± 14.04

0.092

Potassium, mmol/L

4.07 ± 0.42

3.69 ± 0.75

 < 0.01

PACa, ng/dL

30.50 (16.74–46.45)

57.15 (33.42–90.05)

 < 0.001

PRAa, ng/mL/h

1.79 (0.64–5.07)

0.205 (0.078–0.475)

 < 0.001

ARRa

18.86 (6.61–33.96)

272.64 (65.27–761.59)

 < 0.001

eGFR, ml/min/1.73m2

90.51 ± 22.52

90.48 ± 23.73

0.995

  1. Data were presented as the mean ± SD, median (interquartile range) or number (%).
  2. PAC plasma aldosterone concentration, PRA plasma renin activity, ARR aldosterone to renin ratio.
  3. aExpressed as median and interquartile range.
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