Research Article
Atherosclerosis Burden in Patients with Acute Chest Pain: Obesity Paradox
Table 2
Body morphology indices and obesity categorized by extent of CAC.
| Body indices | All patients | Absent-to-mild CAC | Moderate-to-severe CAC | value |
| BMI, median (range) | 29.2 (14.8–68.6) | 29.4 (17.4–68.6) | 27.5 (14.8–57.8) | 0.001 | Obesity, no. (%) | 471 (45.7) | 403 (47.6) | 68 (37.2) | 0.010 | Body weight (kg) (SD) | 86.4 (23.2) | 87.4 (23.5) | 82.1 (21.5) | 0.005 | BSA (m2) (SD) | 2.73 (0.39) | 2.74 (0.39) | 2.67 (0.38) | 0.037 | Height (meters) (SD) | 1.68 (0.11) | 1.68 (0.11) | 1.68 (0.11) | 0.616 |
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