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Table 1 Patients’ baseline characteristics

From: Assessment of dipyridamole stress echocardiography for risk stratification of diabetic patients

Patients (N)

483

264

Sex (M/F)

189/294

101/163

Age (y ± SD)

63.41 ± 11.28

64.3 ± 10.5

History of hypertension (N/%)

407 (84 %)

223 (84.5 %)

History of dyslipidemia (N/%)

329 (68 %)

181 (68.6 %)

Coronary artery disease (N/%)

68 (14 %)

37 (14 %)

Current smoking (N/%)

51 (10 %)

29 (11 %)

Altered/insufficient exercise stress testing (N/%)

132 (27 %)

70 (26 %)

1Altered EKG (N/%)

30 (6 %)

19 (7 %)

  1. 1Altered EKG = atrial fibrillation, left bundle branch block, right bundle branch block, and ST segment abnormalities