Assessing Risk in Patients with Stable Coronary Disease: When Should We Intensify Care and Follow-Up? Results from a Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies of the COURAGE and FAME Era

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of patients () of the 44 studies included. The first column shows variables, the second one shows the values expressed as mean percentage SD, and the third one shows the number of studies reporting each variable.

Variable	Value	of studies
Age (years)	63.5 4.1	42
Female gender (%)	26.6 8.6	42
Diabetes mellitus (%)	23.2 12.8	42
Hypertension (%)	58.7 16.4	42
Hyperlipidemia (%)	63.8 13.4	24
Smoking (%)	33.9 19.1	42
Family history (%)	42.4 11.8	16
Alcohol use (%)	29.5 0.5	3
Physically inactive (%)	51.5 14.8	3
Prior stroke (%)	9.05 4.08	6
Prior AMI (%)	38.8 18.8	35
Prior CABG (%)	11.8 12.1	22
Prior PCI (%)	18.2 19.6	21