Research Article
Association of Functional VKORC1 Promoter Polymorphism with Occurrence and Clinical Aspects of Ischemic Stroke in a Greek Population
Table 1
Baseline anthropometric and clinical characteristics of subjects included in the study.
| ā | Stroke () | Controls () | |
| Sex, females, (%) | 50 (34.5) | 50 (34.5) | NSa | Age (years) | | | NS | BMI (kg/m2) | | | NS | Atrial fibrillation, (%) | 31 (21) | 8 (6) | <0.001 | Ischemic heart disease, (%) | 37 (26) | 17 (12) | 0.004 | Current smoking, (%) | 52 (36) | 41 (28) | NS | Arterial hypertension, (%) | 104 (72) | 76 (52) | 0.001 | Diabetes mellitus, (%) | 40 (28) | 23 (16) | 0.023 | Hypercholesterolemia, (%) | 102 (70) | 74 (51) | 0.001 |
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NS: nonsignificant. Continuous variables were compared by -test and categorical variables by test.
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