Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the CAD patients.

	Serum TNF-α level
	High (n = 28)	Low (n = 33)	p value
TNF-α (pg/mL)	6.53 (1.65)	−	−
Gender (F/M)	19F/9M	19F/14M	0.4398
Age (Year)	64.89 (1.59)	62.67 (1.06)	0.2379
Blood pressure (H/N)	15H/13N	15H/18N	0.6111
Triglycerides (mM)	1.72 (0.18)	2.27 (0.28)	0.1178
Cholesterol (mM)	4.86 (0.19)	4.61 (0.16)	0.3147
Low density lipoprotein (mM)	2.75 (0.17)	2.43 (0.13)	0.1343
High density lipoprotein (mM)	1.18 (0.05)	1.09 (0.04)	0.1603
Lipoprotein (a) (mg/L)	193.48 (41.16)	252.75 (50.3)	0.3764

Data are provided as means ± SEM.

M: Male, F: Female, H: High, N: Normal.