Thyroid Function, Prevalent Coronary Heart Disease, and Severity of Coronary Atherosclerosis in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography

Figure 1

Severity of coronary atherosclerosis by thyroid function categories. (a) Analyses in the entire population. (b) Analyses in euthyroid individuals. Analyses were by general linear model. The dependent variable was the natural log-transformed Gensini score. Values were adjusted mean ± standard error. Multivariate adjustments were made for sex, age, BMI, hypertension, diabetes, low density lipoprotein cholesterol, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglyceride, smoking, and statin use. ln(Gensini score): natural log-transformed Gensini score.

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