. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Mar 9;30(4):813–818. doi: 10.1007/s10554-014-0392-1

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics of CVD Death Cases and Controls.

The Lifescore Study
N	Cases 57	Controls 171	P-value
Age, years ± SD	72.3 ± 10.3	72.2 ± 9.9	0.93
Female n (%)	15 (26.3%)	45 (26.3%)	0.99
Diabetes n (%)	11 (19.6%)	3 (1.83%)	0.01
Hypertension n (%)	29 (50.9%)	76 (44.4%)	0.4
Total Cholesterol, mg/dL ± SD	195 ± 42	209 ± 151	0.51
HDL, mg/dL ± SD	50 ± 20	53 ± 18	0.35
Cholesterol medication use n (%)	15 (26.3%)	24 (14.0%)	0.03
BMI (kg/m²) ± SD	26.6 ± 4.2	26.5 ± 3.9	0.79
Smoking status			0.11
Never	23 (40.3%)	88 (51.5%)
Former	28 (49.1%)	76 (44.4%)
Current	6 (10.5%)	7 (4.1%)
Agatston CAC Score, Median (IQR)	315 (101, 1024)	202 (5, 794)	0.05
Ordinal Score, Median (IQR)	3 (2, 4)	2 (1, 3)	0.01

IQR = interquartile range