. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Vasc Surg. 2009 Feb 15;50(1):77–82. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.12.065

Table I.

Clinical characteristics of men and women with intermittent claudication. Values are means (SD) or percentage of subjects in each category.

Variables	Men (n = 27)	Women (n = 24)	P Value
Age (years)	69 (9)	67 (11)	0.522
Height (cm)	174.4 (7.4)	160.9 (6.6)	< 0.001
Weight (kg)	85.6 (19.0)	76.9 (14.7)	0.076
Body Mass Index (kg/m²)	28.1 (6.0)	29.8 (6.0)	0.338
Ankle/Brachial Index	0.69 (0.19)	0.61 (0.19)	0.125
Race (% Caucasian)	59	38	0.121
Current Smoking (% yes)	33	48	0.297
Diabetes (% yes)	26	46	0.138
Hypertension (% yes)	89	79	0.451
Dyslipidemia (% yes)	78	88	0.473