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Table 1 Demographic data

From: Mechanism of decreased sensitivity of dobutamine associated left ventricular wall motion analyses for appreciating inducible ischemia in older adults

Category

Group I No LV perfusion defect or wall motion abnormality (n = 232)

Group II LV perfusion defect present, no wall motion abnormality (n = 28)

Group III LV perfusion defect and wall motion abnormality present (n = 18)

p-value*

Age (years)

68 ± 8

70 ± 9

69 ± 8

0.32

Men (%)

110 (47%)

14 (50%)

14 (78%)

0.046

Race/Ethnicity

   

0.50

Caucasian

171 (74%)

23 (82%)

16 (89%)

 

African Am.

56 (24%)

4 (14%)

2 (11%)

 

Hispanic

2 (1%)

1 (4%)

0 (0%)

 

Asian

3 (1%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

 

Body mass index (m/kg2)

30.4 (6.5)

30.3 (4.8)

32.1 (5.4)

0.54

Hypertension

203 (88%)

27 (96%)

16 (89%)

0.38

Coronary artery disease

57 (25%)

9 (32%)

8 (44%)

0.14

Prior MI

16 (7%)

5 (17%)

3 (18%)

0.05

Prior revascularization (PCI or CABG)

31 (13%)

9 (32%)

8 (44%)

<0.001

Diabetes

94 (41%)

11 (39%)

8 (44%)

0.94

Hypercholesterolemia

152 (70%)

22 (79%)

12 (86%)

0.30

Smoking

90 (42%)

10 (36%)

6 (43%)

0.79

Medications

    

Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor

99 (43%)

15 (54%)

7 (39%)

0.52

Angiotensin receptor blocker

64 (30%)

5 (18%)

3 (20%)

0.30

Statin

152 (66%)

21 (75%)

14 (78%)

0.37

Beta blocker

99 (43%)

13 (46%)

11 (61%)

0.32

Calcium channel antagonist

68 (30%)

8 (29%)

9 (50%)

0.20

  1. *Analysis of variance test of equality of three groups. Summary statistics are mean (standard error) for continuous variables and frequency (%) for categorical variables. Abbreviations: CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; LV, left ventricular; MI, myocardial infarction; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention.