Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase Deficiency Is Associated with Ischemic Heart Disease

Table 1

Characteristics of healthy control participants and ischemic heart disease (IHD) patients.

Characteristics	Total participants		Males		Females
	Healthy	IHD	Healthy	IHD	Healthy	IHD
No. of participants	331	292	84	187	247	105
Age of participants (yr.)
Weight (kg)
Height (m)
BMI (kg/m^2)
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)^a
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)^a
Creatinine (mg/dl)
Cholesterol (mg/dl)^a
HDL (mg/dl)^a
LDL (mg/dl)^a
Triglycerides (mg/dl)^a
ALT (U/l)
FPG (mmol/l)

The IHD patients were recruited from the patients admitted in the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases Hospital (NICVDH), Dhaka, Bangladesh. The control participants were recruited from a suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh. All participants were on overnight (10 h) fasting and investigated for all the physical and biochemical tests described above. Statistics: values are expressed as (values have been shown as median (range) in Table 2). Statistical significance of the difference between two respective groups was tested using the unpaired two-tailed Student’s -test. is considered significant. . . . ^aThe value might be influenced because most IHD patients were on antihypertension and antidyslipidemia (anticholesterol) medications.