The Level and Significance of Circulating Angiotensin-III in Patients with Coronary Atherosclerosis

Table 1

The demographic and biochemical characteristics of the study population.

	Controls ()	CAS ()	value
Gender (female/male)	18/26	31/53	0.658
Age (years)			0.641
Smoking (%)	34	45	0.995
Heart rate			0.191
TC (mmol/l)			<0.001
LDL-c (mmol/l)			<0.001
TG (mmol/l)			0.33
BUN (μmol/l)			0.054
Scr (mmol/l)			0.087
HDL-c (mmol/l)			0.002
SBP			0.601
DBP			0.104
Blood glucose			0.268
cTnI			<0.001
CK-MB			0.316
CK			0.612
Serum potassium			0.427

CAS: coronary atherosclerosis; TC: total cholesterol; LDL-c: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; TG: triglyceride; Scr: serum creatinine; BUN: blood urea nitrogen; HDL-c: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; cTnI: cardiac troponin I; CK: creatine kinase; CK-MB: creatine kinase isoenzyme.