Cardiac repolarization abnormalities in children with familial Mediterranean fever

Farag, Yomna; Sayed, Shaimaa; Mostafa, Fatma Alzhraa; Marzouk, Huda; Mohamed, Raghda H.; Sobhy, Rodina

doi:10.1186/s12969-022-00696-5

Pediatric Rheumatology

Table 4 Correlation between ECG parameters of the patients with their history parameters and colchicines data

From: Cardiac repolarization abnormalities in children with familial Mediterranean fever

History parameters		QT	JT	QTc	JTc	Pd
Age at study	Coefficient correlation	0.296	0.314	−0.007	0.025	− 0.306
Age at study	P value	0.022*	0.014	0.960	0.852	0.018*
Age disease onset	Coefficient correlation	−0.127	−0.106	−0.057	− 0.035	−0.343
Age disease onset	P value	0.335	0.422	0.666	0.793	0.007*
Age of diagnosis	Coefficient correlation	−0.068	−0.040	− 0.107	− 0.080	−0.303
Age of diagnosis	P value	0.607	0.760	0.417	0.542	0.019*
Disease duration	Coefficient correlation	0.453	0.450	−0.054	−0.016	−0.108
Disease duration	P value	0.000*	0.000*	0.682	0.905	0.409
Number of attack/month	Coefficient correlation	0.084	−0.053	−0.048	− 0.184	0.295
Number of attack/month	P value	0.522	0.687	0.714	0.158	0.022*
Number of attack/year at time of study	Coefficient correlation	0.038	−0.096	−0.105	−0.187	0.273
Number of attack/year at time of study	P value	0.773	0.466	0.423	0.152	0.035*
Duration of attack at time of study	Coefficient correlation	−0.264	−0.322	−0.077	− 0.150	0.238
Duration of attack at time of study	P value	0.042*	0.012*	0.559	0.252	0.067
Erysipleas like erythema	Coefficient correlation	0.067	0.187	0.163	0.302	0.329
Erysipleas like erythema	P value	0.610	0.153	0.213	0.019*	0.010*
Severity score	Coefficient correlation	0.088	0.040	0.090	0.088	0.255
Severity score	P value	0.506	0.759	0.492	0.502	0.050*
Colchicine data		QT	JT	QTd	Tpe	Tpe/QTc
Dose of colchicine	Coefficient correlation	0.229	0.284	−0.005	0.021	−0.012
Dose of colchicine	P value	0.079	0.028*	0.970	0.875	0.928
Duration of colchicine treatment	Coefficient correlation	0.440	0.446	0.124	0.168	0.145
Duration of colchicine treatment	P value	0.000*	0.000*	0.347	0.201	0.207
FMF50 score	Coefficient correlation	−0.106	−0.100	0.145	0.224	0.271
FMF50 score	P value	0.419	0.446	0.270	0.085	0.036*

QTc Corrected QT interval, JTc Corrected JT interval, Pd P wave dispersion, QTd QT interval dispersion, Tpe Peak to end T wave, P value Probability value

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