Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the overall cohort stratified by divorce status and gender.
| All patients | Men (n = 771) | Women (n = 297) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All (n = 1,068) |
No divorce (n = 944) | Divorce (n = 124) | P value | No divorce (n = 728) | Divorce (n = 43) | P value | No divorce (n = 216) | Divorce (n = 81) | P value | |
| Age (yr) | 59 ± 13 | 59 ± 13 | 58 ± 12 | 0.1895 | 59 ± 13 | 57 ± 15 | 0.2753 | 60 ± 13 | 58 ± 10 | 0.1178 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 28 ± 6 | 28 ± 6 | 29 ± 6 | 0.1415 | 28 ± 6 | 28 ± 5 | 0.6331 | 29 ± 8 | 29 ± 7 | 0.6193 |
| Rural (%) | 26 | 26 | 23 | 0.3775 | 27 | 35 | 0.2552 | 24 | 16 | 0.1363 |
| Diabetes mellitus (%) | 56 | 57 | 48 | 0.0398 | 57 | 44 | 0.1421 | 63 | 49 | 0.0339 |
| Hypertension (%) | 60 | 59 | 66 | 0.0910 | 57 | 63 | 0.4367 | 67 | 69 | 0.6861 |
| Smoking (%) | 43 | 45 | 34 | 0.0258 | 54 | 70 | 0.0399 | 14 | 15 | 0.8421 |
| Dyslipidemia (%) | 64 | 65 | 60 | 0.2818 | 66 | 56 | 0.1693 | 60 | 62 | 0.7530 |
| Past history (%) | ||||||||||
| Coronary artery Disease | 43 | 43 | 44 | 0.9011 | 45 | 36 | 0.2439 | 38 | 48 | 0.1116 |
| PCI | 23 | 23 | 21 | 0.6652 | 23 | 26 | 0.7092 | 21 | 19 | 0.5977 |
| CABG | 6 | 6 | 9 | 0.2455 | 6 | 5 | 0.6836 | 6 | 11 | 0.1356 |
| Atrial fibrillation | 6 | 5 | 11 | 0.0075 | 4 | 14 | 0.004 | 8 | 10 | 0.6752 |
| CHF | 14 | 13 | 17 | 0.2756 | 13 | 14 | 0.8854 | 14 | 19 | 0.3217 |
| CVA | 5 | 4 | 7 | 0.2632 | 4 | 7 | 0.3389 | 5 | 6 | 0.7134 |
| CKD | 16 | 15 | 19 | 0.2127 | 14 | 23 | 0.1008 | 18 | 17 | 0.8771 |
| Depression | 9 | 10 | 7 | 0.3920 | 8 | 0 | 0.0521 | 15 | 11 | 0.4099 |
| PAD | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0.1158 | 2 | 5 | 0.3015 | 6 | 6 | 0.8384 |
| Ethnicity (%) | 0.5333 | 0.2300 | 0.9455 | |||||||
| Arabic Gulf | 89 | 88 | 91 | 87 | 91 | 92 | 91 | |||
| Arabic non-Gulf | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Non-Arabic | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 4 | |||
| Monthly income (%) | 0.0902 | 0.3803 | 0.6616 | |||||||
| <$1300 | 58 | 57 | 69 | 51 | 44 | 78 | 83 | |||
| $1300–2600 | 24 | 26 | 17 | 29 | 26 | 15 | 12 | |||
| $2600–5300 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 26 | 4 | 5 | |||
| >$5300 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | |||
| Job category (%) | <0.0001 | 0.1572 | 0.0722 | |||||||
| Jobless | 39 | 35 | 68 | 21 | 28 | 82 | 89 | |||
| Private sector | 13 | 14 | 2 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Government sector | 35 | 37 | 21 | 43 | 49 | 15 | 6 | |||
| Self-employed | 13 | 14 | 9 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Education levels (%) | 0.2948 | 0.5954 | 0.3363 | |||||||
| Illiterate | 49 | 48 | 57 | 42 | 49 | 68 | 62 | |||
| Secondary school | 34 | 34 | 31 | 38 | 32 | 21 | 29 | |||
| Higher education | 17 | 18 | 12 | 20 | 19 | 11 | 9 | |||
| Indication for CAG (%) | 0.0047 | 0.3064 | 0.0017 | |||||||
| Elective | 48 | 49 | 41 | 46 | 40 | 57 | 42 | |||
| NSTEACS | 46 | 45 | 58 | 48 | 58 | 38 | 58 | |||
| STEMI | 6 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 0 | |||
| Findings on CAG (%) | ||||||||||
| Any CAD | 68 | 68 | 66 | 0.6272 | 73 | 67 | 0.4232 | 52 | 65 | 0.0426 |
| Single vessel disease | 20 | 22 | 11 | 23 | 12 | 19 | 11 | |||
| Double vessel disease | 25 | 25 | 23 | 26 | 37 | 22 | 16 | |||
| Triple vessel disease | 23 | 22 | 32 | 24 | 19 | 12 | 38 | |||
| Multivessel disease | 48 | 47 | 55 | 0.0824 | 50 | 56 | 0.4857 | 34 | 54 | 0.0013 |
| Left main disease | 12 | 11 | 12 | 0.7194 | 13 | 2 | 0.0354 | 3 | 17 | <0.0001 |
| Intervention (%) | 0.2298 | 0.2279 | <0.0001 | |||||||
| Medical therapy | 37 | 37 | 34 | 34 | 30 | 50 | 36 | |||
| PCI | 45 | 45 | 42 | 46 | 58 | 40 | 33 | |||
| CABG | 18 | 18 | 24 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 31 | |||
DM, diabetes mellitus; CAD, BMI, body mass index; CAD, coronary artery disease; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; AF, atrial fibrillation; CHF, congestive heart failure; CVA, cerebrovascular accident; CKD, chronic kidney disease; PAD, peripheral arterial disease; $, USA Dollars; Ph.D., a doctor of philosophy; STEMI, ST segment elevation myocardial infarction; NSTEACS, non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes; CAG, coronary angiography.