. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 6.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013 Dec 4;63(7):682–690. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.09.073

Table 2.

Lower Extremity Angiographic Characteristics of Patients With and Without Statin Use.

	Statin (N = 246)	No Statin (N = 134)	P Value
Level of Disease^*
Aorto - Iliac	54 (29)	33 (31)	0.7
Femoropopliteal	188 (82)	93 (73)	0.06
Infrapopliteal	205 (91)	105 (86)	0.2
Multilevel Stenosis^†	161 (68)	75 (57)	0.03
Chronic Total Occlusion
Aorto-Iliac	22 (12)	19 (18)	0.2
Femoropopliteal	114 (50)	60 (47)	0.7
Infrapopliteal	205 (91)	105 (86)	0.2
Lower Extremity Runoff			0.3
0	32 (15)	19 (16)
1–2	159 (73)	77 (66)
3	26 (12)	20 (17)

Level of disease was defined as >50% stenosis within a given segment. The totals are greater than 100%, since a given patient could have stenoses at multiple levels.

^†

Defined as at least one stenosis >50% in both a femoro-popliteal and an infrapopliteal vessel.