Table 1.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria for Patients With Coronary Artery Disease and Healthy Volunteers

	Inclusion Criteria	Exclusion Criteria
ACS patients	STEMI and non–ST‐segment elevation ACS diagnosis at the moment of admission according to the guidelines	Age <40 years, bleeding or necessity of blood/plasma transfusion, acute stroke, pregnancy, acute infections, neoplasms
SCAD patients	Clinical signs of angina of effort or positive treadmill test and/or stenosis >50% on invasive coronary angiography
Healthy volunteers	No signs of possible atherosclerosis according to treadmill test, echocardiography, and ultrasound of peripheral arteries

ACS indicates acute coronary syndrome; SCAD, stable coronary artery disease; STEMI, ST‐segment elevation myocardial infarction.