The Egyptian Heart Journal

Table 3 Relation between different cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular events

From: Detection of positively remodeled coronary artery lesions by multislice CT and its impact on cardiovascular future events

		No events	events	P value
		No. = 30	No. = 25	P value
Age (years)		55.17 ± 7.91	56.16 ± 7.74	0.642
Males		20 (66.7%)	19 (76.0%)	0.448
BMI		27.77 ± 2.93	28.84 ± 2.90	0.180
Smoking	Nonsmoker			0.657
Smoking	Smoker	15 (50.0%)	14 (56.0%)	0.657
Hypertensive		16 (53.3%)	15 (60.0%)	0.620
Diabetics		15 (50.0%)	14 (56.0%)	0.657
DM type	DM type I	2 (13.3%)	2 (15.4%)	0.877
DM type	DM type II	13 (86.7%)	11 (84.6%)	0.877
Duration of DM		12.60 ± 3.09	16.46 ± 6.41	0.048*
Dyslipidemia		19 (63.3%)	18 (72.0%)	0.495
EF (%)		60.50 ± 5.73	57.92 ± 5.25	0.090

BMI body mass index, DM diabetes mellitus, EF ejection fraction
*Significant P value

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