Genetic Variants of CD40 Gene Are Associated with Coronary Artery Disease and Blood Lipid Levels

Table 2

Clinical characteristics of study samples.

Variable	Case ()	Control ()
Age (year)	63.75 ± 11.56	61.70 ± 12.75	0.080
Gender (female) (%)	46.2	49.9	0.218
Smoking (%)	37.7	23.5	<0.001
Drinking (%)	21.2	22.7	0.625
BMI (Kg/m^2)	24. 12 ± 2.73	23.94 ± 3.35	0.440
WHR	0.93 ± 0.08	0.87 ± 0.08	<0.001
Hypertension (%)	56.3	29.9	<0.001
Diabetes mellitus (%)	24.0	11.8	<0.001
TC (mmol/L)	4.98 ± 1.60	4.63 ± 1.22	0.104
TG (mmol/L)	1.73 ± 1.17	1.74 ± 1.22	0.937

Age, WHR were compared by the Mann-Whitney test.
BMI, TC, and TG were performed with Student’s -test.
Gender, smoking, drinking, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus were compared by using Pearson’s chi-square test.