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Table 1 Patients’ baseline characteristics

From: Role of myocardial strain imaging in diagnosing inducible myocardial ischemia with treadmill contrast-enhanced stress echocardiography

Variables

Coronary artery stenosis (N = 16)

No coronary artery stenosis (N = 17)

P value

Age (years), mean ± SD

64.9 ± 12

64.7 ± 11

0.9

Achieved MAHR (%), mean ± SD

93 ± 8

102 ± 7

0.004

Gender - male n (%)

8 (50%)

12 (70.6%)

0.6

Hypertension, n (%)

10 (62.5%)

10 (58.8%)

0.45

Dyslipidemia, n (%)

9 (56.3%)

7 (41.2%)

0.9

Diabetes Mellitus, n (%)

0 (0%)

2 (11.8%)

0.001

Smoking, n (%)

6 (37.7%)

4 (23.5%)

0.18

Family history of coronary artery disease, n (%)

5 (31.3%)

9 (52.9%)

0.82

Hypertensive response n (%)

1 (6.3%)

3 (17.6%)

0.008

Electrocardiogram changes n (%)

9 (56.3%)

8 (47.1%)

0.85

  1. MAHR: Maximum age-predicted heart rate (%)