Figure 1

The risk of myocardial infarction as compared to the reference group of wild type non-diabetics (adjusted for age, sex, smoking, BMI, systolic blood pressure, HDL-cholesterol, serum triglycerides, and LTPA) in women (A) or men (B). Homozyogosity for the eNOS Asp298 allele is a significant risk factor of greater magnitude in women than in men. * significant (p = 0.001). **significant (p = 0.003)