Drug Coated Balloon-Only Strategy in De Novo Lesions of Large Coronary Vessels

Table 1

Patient demographics.

	Before PS matching				After PS matching
Variable	de novo	≤ 2.75 mm	>2.75 mm	p-value	≤ 2.75 mm	>2.75 mm	p-value
Number of patients	686	552	134	-	117	117	-
Number of lesions	731	577	154	-	127	132	-
Age (years)	63.5±11.2	63.5±11.1	63.4±11.8	0.836	65.5±11.2	63.3±11.3	0.132
Male gender	551 (80.3%)	433 (78.4)	118 (88.1%)	0.012	97 (82.9%)	101 (86.3%)	0.469
Diabetes	303 (44.2%)	256 (46.4%)	47 (35.1%)	0.018	42 (35.9%)	42 (35.9%)	1.000
Hypertension	517 (75.4%)	420 (76.1%)	97 (72.4%)	0.373	85 (72.6%)	84 (71.8%)	0.884
Hyperlipidemia	504 (73.5%)	408 (73.9%)	96 (71.6%)	0.593	85 (72.6%)	84 (71.8%)	0.884
History of smoking	275 (40.1%)	221 (40.0%)	54 (40.3%)	0.956	46 (39.3%)	46 (43.6%)	0.507
Renal insufficiency	18 (2.6%)	11 (2.0%)	7 (5.2%)	0.036	5 (4.3%)	5 (4.3%)	1.000
unstable angina	205 (29.9%)	166 (30.1%)	39 (29.1%)	0.826	33 (28.2%)	32 (27.4%)	0.984
Atrial fibrillation
paroxysmal	39 (5.8%)	29 (5.3%)	10 (7.5%)	0.373	5 (4.3%)	9 (7.7%)	0.683
persistent	19 (2.8%)	16 (2.9%)	3 (2.2%)		4 (3.4%)	2 (1.7%)
long standing,	2 (0.3%)	1 (0.2%)	1 (0.7%)		1 (0.9%)	1 (0.9%)
persistent
permanent	19 (2.8%)	13 (2.4%)	6 (4.5%)		4 (3.4%)	6 (5.1%)
no AF	607 (88.5%)	493 (89.3%)	114 (85.1%)		103 (88.0%)	99 (84.6%)
Acute coronary Syndrome (ACS)	199 (29.0%)	155 (28.1%)	44 (32.8%)	0.276	39 (33.3%)	39 (33.3%)	1.000
STEMI	90 (13.1%)	74 (13.4%)	16 (11.9%)	0.652	15 (12.8%)	15 (12.8%)	1.000
NSTEMI	109 (15.9%)	81 (14.7%)	28 (20.9%)	0.077	24 (20.5%)	24 (20.5%)	1.000

independent t-test, otherwise Chi² or Fisher’s Exact Test whenever applicable.