Correlation between coronary artery disease severity, left ventricular mass index and carotid intima media thickness, assessed by radio-frequency

Table 2 Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients according to IMT groups.

	All	IMT < 0.90	IMT 0.91-1.19	IMT > 1.20
	n = 115	n = 37	n = 38	n = 40	p
Age (years)	65 ± 12	63 ± 15	65 ± 12	67 ± 9	0.33
Male gender	76 (66)	20 (54)	28 (74)	28 (70)	0.16
Smoking	89 (77)	28 (76)	32 (84)	29 (73)	0.45
CAD family history	86 (75)	27 (73)	25 (66)	34 (85)	0.14
Diabetes mellitus	31 (27)	10 (27)	8 (21)	13 (33)	0.52
Dyslipidaemia	72 (63)	25 (68)	16 (42)*	31 (78)#	0.004
Hypertension	86 (75)	26 (70)	30 (79)	30 (75)	0.69
Unstable angina	30 (26)	14 (38)	10 (26)	6 (15)	0.07
NSTEMI/STEMI	85 (74)	23 (62)	28 (74)	34 (85)	0.07
LVMI ( g/m²)	133.5 ± 21.6	114.3 ± 11.1	131.2 ± 8.4	153.5 ± 20.6	< 0.001
Coronary angiography
RCA	69 (60)	16 (43)	20 (53)	33 (83)	0.001
LAD	26 (23)	7 (19)	5 (13)	14 (35)	0.06
LCX	41 (36)	10 (27)	10 (26)	21 (53)*#	0.022
PDA	25 (22)	4 (11)	8 (21)	13 (33)	0.07
LMCA	2 (2)	0 (0)	1 (3)	1 (3)	0.62
Significantly (> 70%) stenosed coronaries					< 0.001
Monovasal	79 (69)	37 (100)	32 (84)*	10 (25)*#
Bi-vasal	24 (21)	0 (0)	6 (16)	18 (45)
Tri-vasal	12 (10)	0 (0)	0 (0)	12 (30)
PCI	32 (28)	6 (16)	6 (16)	20 (50)*#	< 0.0001
CABG	6 (5)	0 (0)	1 (3)	5 (13)*#	0.033

Mean values ± Standard Deviation or number (percentages) of patients.
*P < 0.05 vs. IMT ≤ 0.90; #P < 0.05 vs. IMT 0.91-1.19.
IMT: Intima-media thickness; CAD: coronary artery diseases; RCA: Right coronary artery; LAD: Left Anterior Descending Artery; LCX: left circumflex artery; PDA: posterior descending artery; LMCA: left main coronary artery; PCI: Percutaneous coronary intervention; CABG: Coronary artery bypass surgery; LVMI: left ventricular mass index; NSTEMI: Non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction; STEMI: ST segment elevation myocardial infarction

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