Research Article
Coronary Artery Disease and the Profile of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in South South Nigeria: A Clinical and Autopsy Study
Table 4
Clinical and biochemical characteristics of clinical cases.
| | Risk factors | Males () | Females () | Total () |
| | Hypertension | 17 (35.3) | 4 (57.1) | 21 (51.2) | | Diabetes mellitus | 2 (5.9) | 0 (0) | 2 (4.9) | | Smoking | 4 (11.8) | 0 (0) | 4 (9.8) | | Significant alcohol intake | 4 (11.8) | 2 (28.6) | 6 (14.6) | | Poor physical activity | 3 (8.8) | 3 (42.9) | 6 (14.6) | | Obesity | 11 (32.3) | 4 (57.1) | 15 (36.6) |
| | Fasting lipid levels | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | value (ANOVA) |
| | Total cholesterol (Tc) | 5.08 ± 1.66 | 3.97 ± 2.22 | 0.250 (ns) | | HDL | 0.87 ± 0.54 | 0.76 ± 0.52 | 0.689 (ns) | | LDL | 3.45 ± 1.22 | 3.87 ± 1.09 | 0.5259 (ns) | | Triglycerides | 1.42 ± 0.53 | 1.80 ± 0.71 | 0.232 (ns) |
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HDL: high density lipoprotein; LDL: low density lipoprotein; numbers in bracket are percentages.
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