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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of hospitalized subjects with infective endocarditis in 2000-2002, 2003-2005, 2006-2008, and p value of the Chi square test for linear trend across the study periods

From: Increasing incidence and mortality of infective endocarditis: a population-based study through a record-linkage system

 

2000-2002 (n = 562)

2003-2005 (n = 601)

2006-2008 (n = 700)

p for trend

Age ≥ 65 years

52.31%

63.56%

63.43%

< 0.001

Females

39.15%

41.60%

33.00%

0.017

Chronic renal failure

7.30%

7.99%

8.86%

0.309

Cancer

8.90%

11.15%

10.00%

0.563

Diabetes mellitus

16.01%

17.80%

15.29%

0.673

Previous congestive heart failure

12.99%

12.31%

11.43%

0.396

Valve procedures, previous 12 months

6.76%

5.49%

6.29%

0.767

All hospitalizations, previous 3 months

39.15%

41.60%

35.57%

0.159

Charlson index > 0

47.51%

48.92%

47.86%

0.927