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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 27.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2011 Nov 23;221(1):176–182. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.11.020

Table 2.

Angiographic characteristics of index coronary lesions. Data are presented as mean ± SD, or number of subjects (%). Complete data were available for all lesions.

Females (n = 3446) Males (n = 6547) All patients (n = 9993) P value (females versus males)

Culprit vessel: < 0.0001
 Left anterior descending 1659 (48.1%) 2999 (45.8%) 4658 (46.6%)
 Circumflex 784 (22.8%) 1843 (28.2%) 2627 (26.3%)
 Right coronary 971 (28.2%) 1636 (25.0%) 2607 (26.1%)
 Left main coronary 32 (0.9%) 69 (1.1%) 101 (1.0%)

Calcification severity: 0.38
 None 1902 (55.2%) 3657 (55.9%) 5559 (55.6%)
 Mild 1060 (30.8%) 1934 (29.6%) 2994 (30.0%)
 Moderate 386 (11.2%) 737 (11.3%) 1123 (11.2%)
 Severe 98 (2.8%) 219 (3.3%) 317 (3.2%)
 Mod-severe calcification 484 (14.0%) 956 (14.6%) 1440 (14.4%)

Stenosis severity (%) 84.2 ± 10.5 85.4 ± 10.7 85.0 ± 10.7 < 0.0001