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
			2χ	df	𝑃
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

^∗3000 g corresponds to the first quartile.