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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of study patients

From: Effect of inflammation on association between cancer and coronary artery disease

Variables

cancer patients (N = 374)

Non-cancer patients(N = 1122)

P Value

Gender

   

 Male

 Female

282(75.4%)

92(24.6%)

829(73.9%)

293(26.1%)

0.562 a

Age (yrs)

66.0(IQR[60.0–70.0])

66.0(IQR[59.0–73.0])

0.821 b

BMI(Kg/M^2)

24.80(IQR[22.60–26.90])

25.10(IQR[23.30–27.20])

0.228 b

Smoking history

   

 Never-Smoker

 Current-smoker

 Ex-smoker

190(50.8%)

169(45.2%)

15(4.0%)

585(52.1%)

419(37.3%)

118(10.5%)

< 0.001 a

Drinking history

   

 Non-drinker

 Current-drinker

 Ex-drinker

218(58.3%)

125(33.4%)

31(8.3%)

709(63.2%)

361(32.4%)

52(4.6%)

0.019 a

Family history of CAD

41(11.0%)

159(14.2%)

0.112 a

Hypertension

220(58.8%)

663(59.1%)

0.927 a

Diabetes Mellitus

130(34.8%)

345(30.7%)

0.149 a

Hyperlipidemia

28(7.5%)

209(18.6%)

< 0.001 a

NLR

2.513(IQR[1.586–2.976])

2.394(IQR[1.697–3.177])

0.011 b

NLR classification

   

 NLR-high

 NLR-low

199(56.7%)

152(43.3%)

534(47.9%)

581(52.1%)

0.004 a

  1. Note: a: Categorical variables, using chi-square test; b: Continuous variables, non-normally distributed, using non-parametric tests Mann-Whitney U