Table 1.

Demographic and Medical Characteristics of 120 Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease

	1087G/G (n = 77)	1087G/A or 1087A/A (n = 43)	Test Statistic	p-value
Demographic Characteristics
Age, years	69.06 ± 7.53	70.84 ± 8.20	1.20	.23
Education, years	14.58 ± 2.56	13.73 ± 2.78	1.66	.10
Female, %	40.2	48.8	0.83	.36
Medical Characteristics (% in each group presenting with specified medical condition)
Type 2 diabetes, %	21.0	25.6	0.32	.57
Myocardial infarction, %	44.1	42.8	0.02	.89
Cardiac Surgery, %	36.4	48.9	1.78	.18
Hypertension, %	68.8	76.7	0.85	.36
Biomarker
C-reactive protein	0.20 ± 0.18	0.23 ± 0.17	0.85	.40

Note. No statistically significant differences emerged between groups.