Atherosclerotic Extension of Carotid Arteries: An Insertion in Clinical Practice

Table 1

Analysis of the association between the presence of PAD and the variables (risk factors/diseases).

	Groups		value
	Not PAD	PAD
Tobacco smoking
	74	95	0.001
%	65.5%	84.1%
Dyslipidemia
	49	60	0.144
%	43.4%	53.1%
Systemic arterial hypertension
	88	92	0.510
%	77.9%	81.4%
T2DM
	48	54	0.424
%	42.5%	47.8%
Stroke
	8	14	0.179
%	7.1%	12.4%
CAD
	15	25	0.082
%	13.3%	22.1%
Obesity
	52	35	0.020
%	46.0%	31.0%
AAA
	18	9	0.066
%	15.9%	8.0%

Note: value ≤ 0.05 indicates significant association by the Chi-square test. ^† value ≤ 0.05 indicares significant association by Fisher’s exact test. AAA: abdominal aortic aneurysm.