Table 3.

Gender-specific hazard ratios of IHD, separately for each of the three blood measures of dyslipidemia, other established risk factors of IHD and the three isoforms of the APOE gene

Trait	Females Hazard Ratio (95% C.I.)	Males Hazard Ratio (95% C.I.)
Blood Measure of Dyslipidemia
HDL-C	2.45 ***	1.28
	(1.66–3.60)	(0.99–1.66)
TG	1.54 ***	1.34 **
	(1.20–1.97)	(1.07–1.68)
T-C	0.71	1.21
	(0.48–1.06)	(0.90–1.63)
Other Established Risk Factors
Smoking	1.76 ***	1.59 ***
	(1.36–2.29)	(1.23–2.06)
Diabetes	2.96 ***	1.59 **
	(1.96–4.48)	(1.13–2.24)
Hypertension	1.29	1.72 ***
	(0.96–1.74)	(1.29–2.30)
ApoE Isoform Groups
E2/2, E3/2	0.91	0.81
	(0.62–1.34)	(0.57–1.15)
E3/3	1	1
	(–)	(–)
E4/2, E4/3, E4/4	1.13	0.9
	(0.86–1.49)	(0.70–1.16)

Significant at the * α ≤ 0.05, ** α ≤ 0.01, *** α ≤ 0.001 level of probability.