Comparison of ages between men and women and their distribution across five age decades among patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy

Analysis of 486 patients who underwent carotid endarterectomy from January 1996 to June 2002 showed similar mean ages in the 269 men and 217 women, whereas the reported mean ages at the time of abdominal aortic aneurysmal resection and at the time of coronary artery bypass grafting were usually significantly different between the 2 genders.