Table Info

Table 1.

Baseline data of the overall study population

Parameter	Data
Women	97/175 (55.4%)
Age (years)	59 (13)
BMI (kg/m²)	29 (4)
Cigarette smoking (any)	25 (14.3%)
Alcohol use (any)	30 (17.1%)
Coronary artery disease	25 (14.3%)
Hypertension	122 (69.7%)
T2DM	75 (42.9%)
Stroke	12 (6.9%)
TC	247 ± 47.4
HDL-C	40 (12)
LDL-C	158.6 ± 48.6
TGs	230 (126)
HbA_1c	5.7 (1.5)

Data are presented as mean ± SD when they are normally distributed or as median [interquartile range (IQR)] when they are not. Qualitative variables are reported as frequencies (%)

Declarations

Author contributions

DI: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing—review & editing. ESM: Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. SAP: Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. CN: Data curation, Investigation, Writing—review & editing. DA: Data curation, Writing—review & editing. GG: Data curation, Writing—review & editing. AG: Conceptualization, Supervision, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Validation, Methodology, Writing—review & editing.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the Declaration of Helsinki 1964 and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Bioethics Committee of the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Consent to participate

Informed consent was obtained from all the participants included in the study.

Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

The data associated with the paper are not publicly available but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Funding

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