Divorce and Severity of Coronary Artery Disease: A Multicenter Study

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of the overall cohort stratified by divorce status and gender.

	All patients				Men ()			Women ()
	All; ( = 1,068)	No divorce ()	Divorce ()	value	No divorce ()	Divorce ()	value	No divorce ()	Divorce ()	value
Age (yr)				0.1895			0.2753			0.1178
BMI (kg/)				0.1415			0.6331			0.6193
Rural (%)	26	26	23	0.3775	27	35	0.2552	24	16	0.1363
Diabetes mellitus (%)	56	57	48	0.0398	57	44	0.1421	63	49	0.0339
Hypertension (%)	60	59	66	0.0910	57	63	0.4367	67	69	0.6861
Smoking (%)	43	45	34	0.0258	54	70	0.0399	14	15	0.8421
Dyslipidemia (%)	64	65	60	0.2818	66	56	0.1693	60	62	0.7530
Past history (%)
Coronary artery Disease	43	43	44	0.9011	45	36	0.2439	38	48	0.1116
PCI	23	23	21	0.6652	23	26	0.7092	21	19	0.5977
CABG	6	6	9	0.2455	6	5	0.6836	6	11	0.1356
Atrial fibrillation	6	5	11	0.0075	4	14	0.004	8	10	0.6752
CHF	14	13	17	0.2756	13	14	0.8854	14	19	0.3217
CVA	5	4	7	0.2632	4	7	0.3389	5	6	0.7134
CKD	16	15	19	0.2127	14	23	0.1008	18	17	0.8771
Depression	9	10	7	0.3920	8	0	0.0521	15	11	0.4099
PAD	4	3	6	0.1158	2	5	0.3015	6	6	0.8384
Ethnicity (%)				0.5333			0.2300			0.9455
Arabic Gulf	89	88	91		87	91		92	91
Arabic non-Gulf	5	6	3		6	0		4	5
Non-Arabic	6	6	6		7	9		4	4
Monthly income (%)				0.0902			0.3803			0.6616
<$1300	58	57	69		51	44		78	83
$1300–2600	24	26	17		29	26		15	12
$2600–5300	11	11	12		13	26		4	5
>$5300	7	6	2		7	4		3	0
Job category (%)				<0.0001			0.1572			0.0722
Jobless	39	35	68		21	28		82	89
Private sector	13	14	2		18	5		2	1
Government sector	35	37	21		43	49		15	6
Self-employed	13	14	9		18	18		1	4
Education levels (%)				0.2948			0.5954			0.3363
Illiterate	49	48	57		42	49		68	62
Secondary school	34	34	31		38	32		21	29
Higher education	17	18	12		20	19		11	9
Indication for CAG (%)				0.0047			0.3064			0.0017
Elective	48	49	41		46	40		57	42
NSTEACS	46	45	58		48	58		38	58
STEMI	6	6	1		6	2		6	0
Findings on CAG (%)
Any CAD	68	68	66	0.6272	73	67	0.4232	52	65	0.0426
Single vessel disease	20	22	11		23	12		19	11
Double vessel disease	25	25	23		26	37		22	16
Triple vessel disease	23	22	32		24	19		12	38
Multivessel disease	48	47	55	0.0824	50	56	0.4857	34	54	0.0013
Left main disease	12	11	12	0.7194	13	2	0.0354	3	17	<0.0001
Intervention (%)				0.2298			0.2279			<0.0001
Medical therapy	37	37	34		34	30		50	36
PCI	45	45	42		46	58		40	33
CABG	18	18	24		20	12		10	31

DM, diabetes mellitus; CAD, 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; STEMI, ST segment elevation myocardial infarction; NSTEACS, non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes; CAG, coronary angiography.