Table 4.

Correlation between risk factors and type of carotid plaques in male and female patients

	Male patients				Female patients
	Unstable plaques	Stable plaques	Multivariate analysis		Unstable plaques	Stable plaques	Multivariate analysis
	N = 187	N = 86	p	OR (95% CI)	N = 66	N = 51	p	OR (95% CI)
Age, mean (SD)	70.4 (7.2)	68.8 (6.9)	0.03	0.96 (0.92–1.00)	70.5 (7.31)	69.7 (7.44)	0.42	1.02 (0.97–1.08)
Hypertension	146 (78.1%)	43 (50.0%)	0.001	0.27 (0.15–0.49)	54 (81.8%)	28 (54.9%)	0.005	0.29 (0.12–0.69)
Diabetes	45 (24.1%)	20 (23.3%)	0.68	1.15 (0.59–2.23)	18 (27.3%)	11 (21.6%)	0.65	0.81 (0.32–2.04)
Smoking habit	117 (62.6%)	58 (67.4%)	0.19	1.50 (0.82–2.75)	28 (42.9%)	24 (47.1%)	0.54	1.20 (0.58–2.85)
Dyslipidemia (high LDL-C)	128 (68.4%)	46 (53.5%)	0.06	0.58 (0.32–1.07)	50 (75.8%)	33 (64.7%)	0.43	0.71 (0.30–1.66)
Obesity	28 (15.0%)	3 (3.5%)	0.01	5.06 (1.42–18.11)	8 (12.1%)	4 (7.8%)	0.92	0.93 (0.25–3.52)