The Association of Paraoxonase-1 Polymorphism with Carotid Artery Stenosis among Elderly Chinese Population

Table 1

The baseline characteristics of the study participants.

Variables	sCAS	aCAS
No. of subjects	88	222	—
Age (years)			0.43
Gender (M)	69	135	0.002
Smoking	20	26	0.02
Alcohol	7	14	0.62
HTD	174	68	0.88
DM	30	53	0.09
ACS	20	35	0.19
PON1	—	—	0.67
GG	32	35	—
GA	41	94	—
AA	15	93	—
G/A	105/71	164/280	<0.001
CAS severity	—	—	<0.001
Mild	24	202	—
Moderate	22	12	—
Severe	42	8	—

sCAS: symptomatic carotid artery stenosis; aCAS: asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis; M: male; F: female; DM: diabetes mellitus; ACS: acute coronary syndrome.