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No Postoperative PAP (N = 76)
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Postoperative PAP (N = 76)
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Unadjusted Hazard Ratioa (95% CI)
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Adjusted Hazard Ratiob (95% CI)
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POAF
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49 (64.5%)
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37 (48.7%)
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0.81 (0.53 – 1.24)
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0.93 (0.58 – 1.48)
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aWe treated postoperative PAP use as a time-dependent variable in the Cox regression model. The PAP variable for patients who received postoperative PAP was coded as zero until the start of PAP and as one thereafter
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bAdjusted for age, gender, previous atrial fibrillation, history of cerebrovascular event, history of myocardial infarction, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, surgery type, cardiopulmonary bypass time, and aortic cross-clamp time