Research Article
Increased Risk of the APOB rs11279109 Polymorphism for CHD among the Kuwaiti Population
Table 1
Distribution of common risk factors analyzed between the CHD patients and controls in the Kuwaiti population (
).
| | Variable | CHD patients
n (%) | Controls
n (%) |
| | Sex | | | | Male | 246 (66.1) | 228 (62.8) | | Female | 126 (33.9) | 135 (37.2) | | Age (years) | | | | <40 | 38 (10.2) | 45 (12.4) | | 40–49 | 73 (19.6) | 79 (21.8) | | 50–59 | 103 (27.7) | 118 (32.5) | | ≥60 | 158 (42.5) | 121 (33.3) | | Mean ± SD | 55.9 ± 13.0 | 54.2 ± 12.8 | | BMI (kg/m2) | | | | <25 | 76 (20.4) | 67 (18.8) | | 25–<30 | 131 (35.2) | 133 (37.4) | | ≥30 | 165 (44.4) | 156 (43.8) | | Mean ± SD | 29.6 ± 6.1 | 30.1 ± 6.9 | | Ethnicity | | | | Arab | 156 (41.9) | 173 (48.1) | | Bedouin Arab | 95 (25.5) | 18 (5.0) | | HU | 24 (6.5) | 92 (25.6) | | Iranian | 97 (26.1) | 77 (21.4) | | Smoking status | | | | Nonsmoker | 252 (67.9) | 338 (93.1) | | Ex-smoker | 57 (15.4) | 3 (0.3) | | Current smoker | 62 (16.7) | 22 (6.1) | | Medical history of hypertension | | | | Yes | 205 (55.1) | 157 (43.3) | | Medical history of high cholesterol | | | | Yes | 172 (46.2) | 102 (28.1) | | Medical history of high triglycerides | | | | Yes | 59 (15.9) | 33 (9.1) | | Medical history of diabetes mellitus | | | | Yes | 197 (53.0) | 62 (17.1) | | Family history of cardiac diseases | | | | Yes | 103 (27.7) | 66 (18.2) |
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values were <0.01 and were generated by chi-square test. HU: Heterogeneous population whose mothers are not of Arab origin.
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