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

Table 2

Basic characteristics of patients matched by gender and age.

Parameter	All patients, n = 186	Cancer patients, n = 93	Cancer-free controls, n = 93	OR (95% CI) for cancer	value
Age	62 ± 8	63 ± 7	62 ± 8	1.007 (0.970,1.047)	0.704
Male	96 (52%)	48 (52%)	48 (52%)	1.000 (0.563,1.777)	1.000
Hypertension	103 (55%)	51 (55%)	52 (56%)	0.649 (0.364,1.158)	0.143
Diabetes	24 (13%)	9 (10%)	15 (16%)	1.795 (0.743,4.336)	0.194
Smoking history/bag-year	0 (0, 20)	0 (0,30)	0 (0,17)	1.013 (1.000,1.027)	0.051
Blood sugar/mmol/L	5.41 (4.99,6.11)	5.47 (5.07,6.16)	5.35 (4.86,6.08)	1.098 (0.882,1.367)	0.402
Total cholesterol/mmol/L	4.03 ± 0.95	4.02 ± 0.95	4.03 ± 0.95	0.977 (0.717,1.331)	0.884