Femoral artery plaque: A simple ultrasound clue for severe coronary stenosis

Table 2 Associations between atherosclerotic lesions of the femoral arteries determined by ultrasound imaging with atherosclerotic lesions over 50% in at least one major coronary vessel in ischemic heart disease patients

ROC	AUC/OR	P value	95%CI		Sensitivity	Specificity
			Lower	Upper
Atherosclerosis of femoral arteries, threshold at 30%	0.91	0.0001	0.86	0.95	0.83	0.84
Threshold of femoral lesions at 30%; n = 131/12 and 19/52	29.87	0.0001	13.54	65.89	-	-

CI: Confidence interval; AUC: Area under the curve; OR: Odds ratio; ROC: Receiver operating characteristic.