Preexisting Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis in Patients with and without Cancer

Table 1

Basic characteristics of patients included.

Parameter	All patients, n = 286	Cancer patients, n = 181	Cancer-free controls, n = 105	OR (95% CI) for cancer	value
Age	64 (59, 69)	65 (61, 70)	61 ± 10	1.052 (1.021–1.084)	＜0.001
Male	174 (60.8%)	118 (65.2%)	56 (53.3%)	1.639 (1.004–2.676)	0.048
Hypertension	137 (47.9%)	92 (50.8%)	45 (42.9%)	1.378 (0.849–2.236)	0.194
Diabetes	35 (12.2%)	18 (9.9%)	17 (16.2%)	0.572 (0.281–1.165)	0.124
Smoking history/bag-year	12 (0, 27)	17 (0, 30)	0 (0, 17)	1.020 (1.007–1.033)	0.003
Blood sugar/mmol/L	5.35 (4.92, 5.94)	5.41 (4.97, 5.95)	5.34 (4.81, 5.97)	1.066 (0.892–1.272)	0.661
Total cholesterol/mmol/L	4.02 ± 0.91	4.05 ± 0.89	3.98 ± 0.95	1.081 (0.827–1.413)	0.575