Number of patients with myocardial infarction and controls with calcifications in the coronary vessels; patients with myocardial infarction are separated according to the culprit vessel
| Calcification present in: | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culprit vessel | Number | LM | LAD | CX | RCA | Total | |
| AMI, acute myocardial infarction; CX, circumflex coronary artery; LAD, left anterior descending coronary artery; LM, left main coronary artery; RCA, right coronary artery. | |||||||
| Patients after AMI | LAD | 48 | 16/48 (33%) | 42/48 (88%) | 34/48 (71%) | 32/48 (67%) | 45/48 (94%) |
| CX | 15 | 6/15 (40%) | 12/15 (80%) | 12/15 (80%) | 11/15 (73%) | 14/15 (93%) | |
| RCA | 39 | 13/39 (33%) | 37/39 (95%) | 32/39 (82%) | 38/39 (97%) | 37/39 (95%) | |
| Total | 102 | 35/102 (34%) | 91/102 (90%) | 78/102 (76%) | 81/102 (79%) | 96/102 (94%) | |
| Controls | 102 | 11/102 (11%) | 52/102 (51%) | 40/102 (39%) | 38/102 (37%) | 61/102 (60%) | |