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Published in final edited form as: Arch Womens Ment Health. 2008 Jul 1;11(4):287–293. doi: 10.1007/s00737-008-0021-x

Table 7.

Relation of gender and CHD-like symptoms to coronary calcium^a

	ENTIRE GROUP (N = 6371)			LOW RISK SUBSAMPLE (N = 2221)
SYMPTOM	OR	CI	p	OR	CI	p
Burning chest pain	1.26	1.07 – 1.47	.004	1.30	0.96 – 1.77	.09
Heart flutter	1.13	0.99 – 1.29	.07	1.00	0.76 – 1.31	.98
Lightheadedness	1.33	0.98 – 1.30	08	1.07	0.81 – 1.41	.64
Nausea	1.00	0.78 – 1.28	1.00	1.30	0.76 – 2.22	.34
Chest pain/pressure	1.37	1.21 – 1.56	<.001	1.37	1.08 – 1.75	.01
Shortness of breath	0.75	0.66 – 0.85	<.001	0.73	0.57 – 0.93	.01
Sex (female)	3.40	3.00 – 3.86	<.001	4.09	3.25 – 5.14	<.001
Medication	0.91	0.74 – 1.11	.33	0.67	0.44 – 1.02	.06

^a

Odds ratios were calculated so that ratios greater than 1 indicated a higher likelihood of having a coronary calcium score greater than 0.