|   | 
        Transfusion-    Refusing Population | 
        Transfusion-    Accepting Population | 
        p    Value at ANOVA | 
      
      
        | No.    of patients  | 
        202 | 
        4700 | 
          | 
      
      
        | Family history of cardiovascular disease | 
        53.6% | 
        48.1% | 
        0.25 | 
      
      
        | Obesity | 
        26.6% | 
        24.9% | 
        0.31 | 
      
      
        | Diabetes | 
        42.6% | 
        38.5% | 
        0.12 | 
      
      
        | Hypercholesterolemia | 
        54.3% | 
        51.7% | 
        0.47 | 
      
      
        | Smoking    habit | 
        37.1% | 
        41.1% | 
        0.33 | 
      
      
        | Hypertension | 
        72.8% | 
        74.7% | 
        0.37 | 
      
      
        | Logistic    EUROScore | 
        8.1±7.27 | 
        9.2±9.7 | 
        0.25 | 
      
      
        | Age | 
        68,7±9.2 | 
        66.4±9.8 | 
        0.12 | 
      
      
        | Gender | 
        71%    Male | 
        70%    Male | 
        0.37 | 
      
      
        | Chronic    pulmonary obstructive disease  | 
        26.1% | 
        27.5% | 
        0.15 | 
      
      
        | Presence    of extracardiac arteriopathy | 
        22.1% | 
        23.8% | 
        0.22 | 
      
      
        | Neurological    dysfunction disease | 
        3.4% | 
        4.1% | 
        0.31 | 
      
      
        | Previous    cardiac surgery | 
        4.9% | 
        5.4% | 
        0.24 | 
      
      
        | Serum    creatinine | 
        1.24±0.9 | 
        1.33±0.4 | 
        0.23 | 
      
      
        | Severe    renal impairment | 
        3.2% | 
        3.9% | 
        0.17 | 
      
      
        | Presence    of active endocarditis | 
        2.1% | 
        2.6% | 
        0.25 | 
      
      
        | Critical    preoperative state | 
        2.2% | 
        2.4% | 
        0.16 | 
      
      
        | Unstable    angina | 
        19.1% | 
        21.6% | 
        0.09 | 
      
      
        | Ejection    fraction | 
        48.5±9.2 | 
        52.7±8.3 | 
        0.09 | 
      
      
        | Recent    myocardial infarct | 
        12.7% | 
        13.6% | 
        0.21 | 
      
      
        | Pulmonary    hypertension | 
        5.9% | 
        6.3% | 
        0.17 | 
      
      
        | Postinfarct    septal rupture | 
        0.3% | 
        0.2% | 
        0.16 | 
      
      
        | Height | 
        163±7. | 
        165±9 | 
        0.24 | 
      
      
        | Weight | 
        74±15 | 
        76±12 | 
        0.31 | 
      
      
        | Baseline    haemoglobin g/dl | 
        13.5±1.4 | 
        12.8±1.2 | 
        0.16 |