Association of demographic and life-style characteristics, vascular risk factors, laboratory parameters and medication with EPC number (n = 571)

ARBs, angiotensin-receptor blockers.*Values presented are unadjusted means��SD, medians (IQR) or percentages.?P values for the variables age and sex are from unadjusted analyses. All other P values are from analyses adjusted for age and sex.?Analysis was confined to women only.Factors to convert conventional units into SI units are as follows: glucose (mmol/L, 0.05551); cholestrerol (mmol/L, 0.0259); Triglycerides (mmol/L, 0.01129); Lipoprotein (a) (��mol/L, 0.0357); Creatinine (��mol/L, 72.26); Fibrinogen (��mol/L, 0.0294); Ferritin (pmol/L, 2.247).