Table 5.

Effect of age in the correlation between risk factors, gender and type of plaques

	Male patients < 70 years				Male patients ≥ 70 years
	Unstable plaques	Stable plaques	Multivariate analysis		Unstable plaques	Stable plaques	Multivariate analysis
	N = 84	N = 48	p	OR (95% CI)	N = 103	N = 38	p	OR (95% CI)
Hypertension	67 (79.8%)	25 (52.1%)	0.02	0.27 (0.12–0.63)	79 (76.7%)	18 (47.4%)	0.002	0.27 (0.12–0.62)
Diabetes	24 (28.6%)	14 (29.2%)	0.52	1.34 (0.55–3.30)	21 (20.4%)	6 (15.8%)	0.90	0.93 (0.32–2.71)
Smoking habit	63 (75.0%)	34 (70.8%)	0.88	1.07 (0.44–2.59)	54 (52.4%)	24 (63.2%)	0.12	1.97 (0.84–4.58)
Dyslipidemia (high LDL-C)	65 (77.4%)	26 (54.2%)	0.04	0.42 (0.18–0.95)	63 (61.2%)	20 (52.6%)	0.86	4.57 (0.38–1.97)
Obesity	16 (19.0%)	2 (4.2%)	0.03	5.91 (1.17–29.80)	12 (11.7%)	1 (2.6%)	0.16	4.61 (0.54–39.19)