Polygamy and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease in Men Undergoing Angiography: An Observational Study

Table 1

Overall patients baseline characteristics stratified by their number of wives.

	All ()	1 wife ()	2 wives ()	3 wives ()	4 wives ()	value
Age	59 ± 12	58 ± 13	60 ± 11	61 ± 10	59 ± 13	0.01
BMI	28 ± 6	27 ± 6	28 ± 6	28 ± 6	27 ± 8	0.48
Rural (%)	27	24	32	36	43	0.027
DM (%)	56	55	58	61	48	0.726
Hypertension (%)	57	54	65	61	57	0.147
Smoking (%)	54	55	51	57	48	0.613
Dyslipidemia (%)	66	65	64	79	67	0.136
Past history (%)
CAD	45	42	51	51	43	0.224
PCI	24	23	29	20	14	0.264
CABG	6	4	12	13	10	0.001
AF	5	5	5	4	0	0.746
CHF	13	12	15	13	14	0.848
CVA	4	3	5	9	5	0.134
CKD	14	13	15	23	10	0.13
Depression	8	9	6	7	5	0.666
PAD	2	2	4	4	0	0.199
Ethnicity (%)						0.215
Arabic Gulf region	87	86	90	86	100
Arabic Non-Gulf	6	7	3	10	0
Non-Arabic	7	7	7	4	0
Monthly income (%)						<0.001
<$1300	50	52	49	44	40
$1300–2600	29	29	26	29	35
$2600–5300	13	14	12	10	10
$5300 to 7900	4	3	9	7	0
$7900 to 10600	2	1	2	6	5
>$10600	2	1	2	4	10
Job category (%)						0.127
Jobless	21	22	20	21	19
Private	18	17	20	20	10
Government	43	40	46	50	62
Self-employee	18	21	14	9	9
Education level (%)						0.778
Illiterate	42	41	43	43	38
Secondary school	38	39	38	34	33
Postgraduate	16	15	16	16	29
Masters	3	4	3	4	0
Ph.D.	1	1	0	3	0

DM, diabetes mellitus; CAD, coronary artery disease; BMI, body mass index; CAD, coronary artery disease; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; AF, atrial fibrillation; CHF, congestive heart failure; CVA, cerebrovascular accident; CKD, chronic kidney disease; PAD, peripheral arterial disease; $, USA dollars; Ph.D., a doctor of philosophy.