Quality of life in sexagenarians after aortic biological vs mechanical valve replacement: a single-center study in China

Table 1 Comparison of general data between the two groups

	Biological AVR	MechanicalAVR	P values
cases	40	38
age	55.6 ± 4.3	54.8 ± 5.1	0.876
gender	24/16	21/17	0.672
Cardiac function
I	0	0	0.880
II	28	26
III	12	12
IV	0	0
The lesion type
stenosis	13	15	0.795
insufficiency	9	7
stenosis with insufficiency	18	16
Ejection fraction	57.9 ± 11.8	55.3 ± 13.6	0.682
The living environment
rural	29	27	0.887
city	11	11	0.887
marriage
married	37	35	0.54
unmarried	1	0
Death of a spouse	2	3

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