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Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008 May 20;51(20):1967–1974. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.12.058

Table II.

Patient characteristics according to severity of limb ischemia at presentation.

	control N=111	claudication N=74	CLI N=44	p value
Age (yrs)	59 ± 7	60 ± 10	67 ± 11^*^†	0.0001
Male %	54	65	73^*	0.0223
Caucasian %	89	77^*	77	0.0314
Type 2 dm %	59	55	82^‡^§	0.0263
Hypertension %	59	72	86^‡	0.0006
Hyperlipidemia %	53	77^‡	66	0.0267
Tobacco use %	47	81^‡	86^‡	<0.0001
BMI (kg/cm²)	30.3 ± 6.7	29.4 ± 6.5	27.7 ± 7.7	0.3914
TAC^¶	0 (0, 12093)	107(0, 19848)^‡	4475(24, 23392)^‡^§	<0.0001

P < 0.05 versus control group

^†

P < 0.05 versus claudication

^‡

P < 0.01 versus control group

^§

P < 0.01 versus claudication group

^¶

TAC scores are expressed as median (min, max)