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Table 2 Clinical information of the PE and non-PE patients

From: The diagnostic value of D-dimer with simplified Geneva score (SGS) pre-test in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE)

Variates

Total

PE patients

Non-PE patients

p

(n = 1035)

(n = 294)

(n = 741)

Age (years)

67.36 ± 9.79

67.27 ± 9.47

67.4 ± 9.92

0.84

Gender

 Male n (%)

612 (59.13)

167 (56.8)

445 (60.05)

0.51

 Female n (%)

423 (41.07)

127 (43.2)

296 (39.95)

 

 Lung cancer n (%)

68 (6.57)

28 (9.52)

40 (5.4)

0.02

 Pulmonary infection n (%)

377 (36.43)

100 (34.01)

277 (37.38)

0.34

 Hypertension n (%)

418 (40.39)

110 (37.41)

308 (41.57)

0.25

 Diabetes n (%)

154 (14.88)

35 (11.9)

119 (16.06)

0.11

 Coronary disease n (%)

71 (6.86)

14 (4.76)

57 (7.69)

0.12

 Dyspnea n (%)

559 (54)

172 (58.5)

387 (52.23)

0.08

 Chest pain n (%)

124 (11.98)

37 (12.59)

87 (11.74)

0.74

 Cough n (%)

360 (34.78)

85 (28.91)

275 (37.11)

0.02

 Hemopthysis n (%)

50 (4.83)

12 (4.08)

38 (5.13)

0.58

 WBC

8.62 ± 6.71

9.00 ± 9.85

8.47 ± 4.95

0.26

 HGB

125.22 ± 23.39

126.69 ± 21.67

124.63 ± 24.02

0.46

 Neutr.

8.63 ± 6.71

9 ± 9.85

8.47 ± 4.95

0.26

 PLT

232.66 ± 96.36

226.76 ± 89.76

234.99 ± 98.84

0.22

 CRP

37.47 ± 56.05

38.07 ± 58.00

35.82 ± 50.33

0.61

 FIB

3.49 ± 1.17

3.33 ± 1.06

3.56 ± 1.21

0.01

 D-dimer (mg/L)

3.94 ± 7.92

6.61 ± 11

2.89 ± 5.99

< 0.001

 SGS

1.72 ± 0.95

1.87 ± 0.96

1.66 ± 0.93

0.002

  1. PE pulmonary embolism, n number, WBC white blood cell, HGB hemoglobin, Neutr neutrophil, PLT blood platelet, CRP C-reaction protein, FIB Fibrinogen, SGS Simplified Geneva score