Table 2 Angiographic characteristics of CAD participants according to ages.

From: HDL subfractions and very early CAD: novel findings from untreated patients in a Chinese cohort

 

Very early

Early

Late

p value

n = 81

n = 304

n = 349

Involved stenotic coronary arteries

    

LM-diseased

9 (11.4)

47 (15.4)

52 (15.0)

0.659

LAD-diseased

70 (86.1)

265 (87.2)

324 (92.9)

0.030

LCX-diseased

43 (53.2)

181 (59.4)

230 (65.9)

0.060

RCA-diseased

44 (54.4)

173 (57.0)

217 (62.1)

0.292

Number of stenotic coronary

   

0.023

arteries

1-vessel diseased

32 (39.0)

95 (31.4)

86 (24.6)

 

2-vessels diseased

20 (24.7)

92 (30.1)

93 (26.6)

 

Multi-vessels diseased

29 (36.4)

117 (38.5)

170 (48.8)

 

Total number of stenotic vessels

2.04 ± 0.98

2.15 ± 0.96

2.34 ± 0.95

0.009

Gensini score

22 (10.5–44)

24 (10–52)

24 (12–58)

0.161

  1. Data are expressed as mean ± SD or n (%). The bold values indicated statistical significance. LM, left main coronary artery; LAD, left anterior descending artery; LCX, left circumflex artery; RCA, right coronary artery.