Table 1 Key baseline characteristics of the study population

From: Trends and effectiveness of digital health management in postdischarge coronary artery disease across COVID19 pandemic

Characteristic

Pre-COVID-19 pandemic era, N = 13,473

COVID-19 pandemic era, N = 5173

Post-COVID-19 pandemic era, N = 5483

p-value

(overall)

p-value

(Pre vs. COVID)

p-value

(Post vs. COVID)

Group, n (%)

   

<0.001a

<0.001a

<0.001a

Conventional Outpatient Follow-up

11,217 (83.3%)

1017 (19.7%)

759 (13.8%)

   

Digital Health Management Follow-up

2256 (16.7%)

4156 (80.3%)

4724 (86.2%)

   

Demographic indicators

Sex, Male, n (%)

9381 (69.6%)

3501 (67.7%)

3522 (64.2%)

<0.001a

0.010a

<0.001a

Age, Median (IQR)

64 (55, 72)

61 (55, 71)

62 (55, 71)

<0.001b

<0.001c

0.2c

Age > 65 years, n (%)

6099 (45.3%)

1941 (37.5%)

2024 (36.9%)

<0.001a

<0.001a

0.5a

Lifestyle factors

Current smoking, n (%)

5553 (41.3%)

1960 (38.0%)

1853 (33.8%)

<0.001a

<0.001a

<0.001a

Current drinking, n (%)

6174 (45.9%)

2139 (41.5%)

1633 (29.8%)

<0.001a

<0.001a

<0.001a

Comorbidities

Acute coronary syndrome, n (%)

11,850 (88.0%)

4239 (82.0%)

3990 (72.8%)

<0.001a

<0.001a

<0.001a

Hypertension, n (%)

9284 (68.9%)

3515 (67.9%)

3691 (67.3%)

0.081a

0.2a

0.5a

Hyperlipidemia, n (%)

7026 (52.1%)

2843 (55.0%)

2635 (48.1%)

<0.001a

<0.001a

<0.001a

Diabetes mellitus, n (%)

8238 (61.1%)

2756 (53.3%)

2759 (50.3%)

<0.001a

<0.001a

0.002a

Stroke, n (%)

1788 (13.3%)

657 (12.7%)

535 (9.8%)

<0.001a

0.3a

<0.001a

Heart failure, n (%)

6134 (45.5%)

2532 (48.9%)

2619 (47.8%)

<0.001a

<0.001a

0.2a

Chronic kidney disease, n (%)

4765 (35.4%)

1593 (30.8%)

1169 (21.3%)

<0.001a

<0.001a

<0.001a

Laboratory and examination parameters

EF, Median (IQR)

55 (46, 65)

55 (44, 65)

56 (45, 65)

0.031b

0.014c

0.023c

LDL-C, Median (IQR)

2.63 (1.58, 4.00)

2.94 (1.99, 3.75)

2.89 (2.25, 3.41)

<0.001b

<0.001c

<0.001c

eGFR, Median (IQR)

76 (55, 98)

75 (57, 95)

75 (63, 89)

0.9b

0.7c

0.8c

Coronary intervention

Multi-vessel disease, n (%)

4964 (36.8%)

2530 (48.9%)

4275 (78.0%)

<0.001a

<0.001a

<0.001a

PCI, n (%)

7867 (58.4%)

3294 (63.7%)

4325 (78.9%)

<0.001a

<0.001a

<0.001a

  1. aPearson’s Chi-squared test.
  2. bKruskal–Wallis rank sum test.
  3. cWilcoxon rank sum test.