Table 1.

Patients’ general characteristics (417 patients).

Variable	Mean	Standard deviation
Age (n = 417), yr	67.8	12.2
Male (n = 290)	69.7%
BMI	28.9	6.2
Waist (cm)	104.4	14.8
Hypertension (n = 304)	73.6%	13.7
Dyslipidemia (297)	71.7%	24.6
Diabetes mellitus (n = 187)	44.2%	28
Smokers (n = 131)	31.8%	18.3
Fam. history of early IHD	7.0%	4.3
STEMI/NSTEMI (n = 67)	16.0%	4.8
Total Gensini score	66.7	63.8
Gensini score per segment	4.8	4.8
CVA/TIA (n = 40)	9.6%	3.0
CABG (n = 95)	22.9%	37%
PVD (n = 25)	6.0%	2.6
Renal failure (n = 86)	20.7%	13.5
Creatinine (mg/dl)	1.8	0.9
Hemoglobin (g%)	15.5	8.8
Total cholesterol (mg/dl)	168.1	49.5
LDL cholesterol	98.5	36.5
HDL cholesterol	44.9	13.6
Vessel disease
1 (n = 71)	18.3%	10.2
2 (n = 89)	22.9%	8.6
3 (n = 133)	34.3%	13.4