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Table 2 Chi-squared analysis results for heart disease distribution among CAM users and non-CAM users

From: Complementary and alternative medicine usage among cardiac patients: a descriptive study

 

CAM Usage, n (%; SE [%])

 

Type of heart disease

Yes (n = 185)

No (n = 144)

Pvalue for the chi-squared test

Ischaemic heart disease

104 (62.7; 3.56)

82 (62.1; 4.04)

0.925

Cardiomyopathy

12 (7.2; 1.90)

10 (7.6; 2.01)

0.91

Cardiac arrhythmia

6 (3.6; 1.37)

4 (3.0; 1.42)

0.779

Valvular heart disease

13 (7.8; 1.97)

13 (9.8; 2.48)

0.544

Other

31 (18.7; 2.87)

23 (17.4; 3.16)

0.88

  1. CAM = complementary and alternative medicine; SE = standard error.