Lupus Anticoagulant and Anticardiolipin Antibody IgG are Associated with Increased Atherosclerosis at the Suprainguinal Elastic and Infrainguinal Muscular Arteries in the Abdomen and Lower Extremities

Table 1 The 23 arterial segments, ADS, and comparison of the number of atherosclerotic arteries

23 Arteries	Laterality	ADS absence/presence of atherosclerosis	Number of atherosclerotic arteries out of 697 participants	Mean ± SD	p*
Suprainguinal elastic arteries
Abdominal aorta		0/1	499	335.57 ± 152.81	0.001
Common iliac artery	Right	0/1	444
	Left	0/1	411
External iliac artery	Right	0/1	119
	Left	0/1	122
Internal iliac artery	Right	0/1	379
	Left	0/1	375
Sum		0/7
Infrainguinal muscular arteries
Common femoral artery	Right	0/1	216	109.44 ± 50.93
	Left	0/1	229
Femoral artery	Right	0/1	144
	Left	0/1	137
Deep femoral artery	Right	0/1	67
	Left	0/1	68
Popliteal artery	Right	0/1	120
	Left	0/1	119
Anterior tibial artery	Right	0/1	98
	Left	0/1	92
Tibio-peroneal trunk	Right	0/1	85
	Left	0/1	80
Peroneal artery	Right	0/1	66
	Left	0/1	57
Posterior tibial artery	Right	0/1	87
	Left	0/1	86
Sum		0/16
Total		0/23

ADS atherosclerosis distribution score (atherosclerosis: absence = 0, presence = 1), mean mean of the number of atherosclerotic arteries, SD standard deviation
*p, Mann–Whitney U test

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