TABLE 3

Accumulation of ¹⁸F-FDG in Aortic Wall in Controls, Favorable AAD Patients, and Unfavorable AAD Patients on 50-Minute Images

		Favorable AAD (n = 20)		Unfavorable AAD (n = 8)
Site	Controls (n = 14)	Data	P vs. controls	Data	P vs. controls	P vs. favorable AAD	P (ANOVA)
Proximal
SUV_max	2.31 ± 0.29	3.91 ± 1.00	0.0001^*	4.33 ± 1.63	0.0001^*	0.932	<0.0001^*
SUV_mean	1.84 ± 0.23	3.03 ± 0.83	0.0001^*	3.18 ± 1.07	0.0007^*	1.0000	<0.0001^*
Maximum
SUV_max	2.34 ± 0.32	3.10 ± 1.18	0.1310	4.52 ± 1.44	<0.0001^*	0.0069^*	0.0001^*
SUV_mean	1.85 ± 0.18	2.36 ± 0.93	0.1680	3.44 ± 0.87	<0.0001^*	0.0043^*	0.0001^*
Distal
SUV_max	2.59 ± 0.34	3.64 ± 0.96	0.0018^*	3.84 ± 0.96	0.0036^*	1.0000	0.0007^*
SUV_mean	2.00 ± 0.21	2.71 ± 0.67	0.0024^*	2.86 ± 0.66	0.0039^*	1.0000	0.0008^*

↵* P < 0.05.
Data are presented as mean ± SD.