Research Article
Coronary Artery Disease: A Study on the Joint Role of Birth Weight, Adenosine Deaminase, and Gender
Table 4
Birth weight in relation to gender in healthy newborns and in subjects with CAD.
| | Healthy newborns | CAD | Chi square test of independence | | | | χ | df | |
| Females | | | | | | % proportion of newborns with a BW 3000 g* | 25.8% | 59.3% | 26.677 | 1 | 10-6 | total no. | 368 | 59 | | | | Males | | | | | | % proportion of newborns with a BW 3000 g* | 22.1% | 25.4% | 0.105 | 1 | .745 | total no. | 394 | 67 | | | |
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000 g corresponds to the first quartile.
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