Table 4.
Characteristics of the entire cohort stratified by presence or absence of cardiovascular disease (only untreated patients)
| Risk factor |
With CVD |
Without CVD |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 74 | N = 221 | |||
| Age (years) |
|
67.7 (±13.3) |
58.0 (±15.8) |
<0.001 |
| Mean (SD) | ||||
| Age at 1st CVD endpoint (yrs) |
|
53.6 (±14.5) |
NA |
NA |
| Mean (SD) | ||||
| Sex (M/F,%) |
|
58.1/41.9 |
37.6/62.4 |
<0.001 |
| BMI (kg/m2) |
|
26.2 (±4.6) |
25.6 (±4.8) |
0.355 |
| Mean (SD) |
|
|
|
|
| Diabetes (%) |
|
13.5 |
3.6 |
0.001 |
| Family history (%) |
|
|
0.420 |
|
| No family history of pre-mature CVD |
45.9 |
51.6 |
||
| Family history of CVD; pre-mature |
54.1 |
47.5 |
||
| Smoking (%) |
|
|
|
<0.001 |
| |
Never smoked |
41.9 |
65.2 |
|
| Ever smoked |
58.1 |
34.8 |
||
| Hypertension (%) |
|
32.4 |
16.3 |
0.001 |
| Deaths (%) | 16.2 | 2.7 | <0.001 | |