Table 1 Patients baseline characteristics between acute coronary syndrome patients and controls.

From: Vascular density with optical coherence tomography angiography and systemic biomarkers in low and high cardiovascular risk patients

 

Acute coronary syndrome patients

(n = 62)

Control patients

(n = 42)

p valuea

Age, years

61 (55–71)

61 (50–73)

0.5

Male

50 (81%)

25 (60%)

0.026

Hypertension

30 (48%)

0

 

Diabetes

8 (13%)

0

 

Hypercholesterolemia

23 (37%)

0

 

Smoking

23 (37%)

0

 

BMI > 30 kg/m2

24 (39%)

0

 

STEMI

40 (65%)

0

 

Axial length (mm)

23.75 ± 0.16

23.50 ± 0.27

0.490

Signal strength

8.7 ± 0.1

9.0 ± 0.1

0.080

  1. STEMI ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. The continuous variables were expressed as Mean ± Standard Deviation, the dichotomous variables were expressed as numbers n (%).
  2. ap values compared between the Acute Coronary Syndrome and control groups.
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