The Egyptian Heart Journal

Table 2 Baseline demographics and clinical characteristics of the patients with and without coronary tortuosity

From: Coronary tortuosity relation with carotid intima-media thickness, coronary artery disease risk factors, and diastolic dysfunction: is it a marker of early atherosclerosis?

Characteristic	C-Tor (n = 30)	Normal (n = 30)	P value
Age (years)	57 ± 7.9	57 ± 7.9	1.0
Male gender	9 (30%)	9 (30%)	1.0
HTN	26 (86.7%)	9 (30%)	< 0.001
DM	10 (33.3%)	10 (33.3%)	1.0
Smokers	6 (20%)	8 (26.7%)	0.54
Typical chest pain	14 (46.7%)	16 (53.3%)	< 0.001
Positive stress testª	13 (100%)^b	1(100%)^b	NA

C-Tor coronary tortuosity, HTN hypertension, DM diabetes mellitus, NA not applicable
ªStress tests included stress electrocardiograms, stress myocardial perfusion imaging, or stress echocardiography
^bAll patients who did a stress test were positive, the others did not do the test (no negative test results)

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