Table 2.

Patient demographics and clinical indication for angioplasty in popliteal and femoral approach angioplasty groups?

	Popliteal angioplasty	Femoral angioplasty	P-value
Number of procedures	88	275
Number of patients	83	243
Age median (mean, SD)	70.5(70.6, 9.4)	72.0(71.9, 10.8)	0.13*
Sex(M:F)	47:41	154:121	0.76**
Race
(Caucasian: AfroCarri bean: Asian)	81:3:4	258:6:11	0.57*
Clinical indication
(Cluadicationcritical ischaemia)	61:27	159:116	0.02*
Critical ischaemia
(Rest pain:ulceration:tissue necrosis/gangrene)	5:17:5	35:62:19

^*Mann–Whitney U-test

^**Pearson's chi-squared test.