Table 1.

Patient characteristics by MI and CAD status.

Characteristic	Overall (N=5,148)	MI (n=1,693)	no MI (n=3,455)	CAD* (n=1,967)	no CAD (n=1,122)
Age (years)	63±12	64±12	63±12	65±11	58±13‡
Sex (male)	69%	74%	66%‡	76%	49%‡
Hypertension	57%	59%	57%	61%	46%‡
Hyperlipidemia	53%	57%	51%‡	62%	31%‡
Diabetes	19%	21%	18%†	22%	11%‡
Smoking	23%	27%	21%‡	25%	16%‡
Family History	39%	42%	38%†	43%	31%‡
hsCRP (mg/L)§	2.95	5.89	2.32‡	3.17	2.62‡
Ethnicity
Asian	0.9%	1.3%	0.7%†	0.4%	1.1%†
African	0.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%
Hispanic	2%	2.3%	1.7%	1%	3%†
Native Am.	0.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.6%
Caucasian	92%	92%	93%¶	94%	90%¶
Other	0.8%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%
Unknown	3%	3%	3%	3%	4%†

^*Patients (n=2,059) with MI or with indeterminate CAD (stenoses 10–69%) were excluded from CAD analyses;

^†p<0.05 and

^‡p<0.001 for comparisons of MI vs. no MI, or CAD vs. no CAD;

^§N=3,314 for available hsCRP measurements;

^¶referent. Age is expressed as the mean±standard deviation and hsCRP as the median.