Table 4 Characteristics of the entire cohort stratified by presence or absence of cardiovascular disease (only untreated patients)
From: Risk stratification of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia in a multi-ethnic cohort
Risk factor | With CVD | Without CVD | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
N = 74 | N = 221 | |||
Age (years) | 67.7 (±13.3) | 58.0 (±15.8) | <0.001 | |
Mean (SD) | ||||
Age at 1st CVD endpoint (yrs) | 53.6 (±14.5) | NA | NA | |
Mean (SD) | ||||
Sex (M/F,%) | 58.1/41.9 | 37.6/62.4 | <0.001 | |
BMI (kg/m2) | 26.2 (±4.6) | 25.6 (±4.8) | 0.355 | |
Mean (SD) | ||||
Diabetes (%) | 13.5 | 3.6 | 0.001 | |
Family history (%) | 0.420 | |||
No family history of pre-mature CVD | 45.9 | 51.6 | ||
Family history of CVD; pre-mature | 54.1 | 47.5 | ||
Smoking (%) | <0.001 | |||
Never smoked | 41.9 | 65.2 | ||
Ever smoked | 58.1 | 34.8 | ||
Hypertension (%) | 32.4 | 16.3 | 0.001 | |
Deaths (%) | 16.2 | 2.7 | <0.001 | |