Table 3.

 Areas of the aortic valve cusps and atherosclerosis-like lesions in each cusp by age

	Age group (years)
	1 (20–40) (n = 15)	2 (41–60) (n = 17)	3 (⩾61) (n = 16)	p Value*
Right coronary cusp
Total area (mm2)	6.06 (0.57)	6.03 (0.33)	9.57 (1.37)	0.072
Lesion area (mm2)	0.21 (0.09)	0.49 (0.15)	1.80 (0.63)	<0.001
Left coronary cusp
Total area (mm2)	6.84 (0.50)	8.65 (0.70)	10.72 (0.88)	0.002
Lesion area (mm2)	0.20 (0.06)	0.70 (0.13)	1.33 (0.35)	<0.001
Non-coronary cusp
Total area (mm2)	6.65 (0.59)	9.42 (0.77)	10.85 (1.04)	0.006
Lesion area (mm2)	0.05 (0.03)	0.83 (0.17)	2.28 (0.71)	<0.001

Data are mean (SEM).

*p Value between the three age groups.