Common Carotid Artery Diameter and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Overweight or Obese Postmenopausal Women

Table 2

Subclinical measures of cardiovascular disease by hormone therapy use.

	Former users (𝑛=197)	Current users (𝑛=294)	𝑃 value^a
Inter-adventitial diameter, mm	6.94 ± 0.54	6.79 ± 0.52	0.001
Lumen diameter, mm	5.44 ± 0.48	5.31 ± 0.46	0.002
Intima media thickness, mm	0.70 (0.65, 0.77)	0.71 (0.65, 0.77)	0.900
Presence of plaque, %	30.5	29.6	0.838

^achi-square for categorical, 𝑡-test and Wilcoxon rank sum tests for continuous. Mean ± standard deviation, median (25th, 75th percentile) or %.