Table 1.
Patient characteristics. Values are numbers (percentages) unless stated otherwise
|
Characteristic
|
Cardiologist (n=30 383)
|
Non-cardiologist (n=53 216)
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inter-hospital median (IQR) | Inter-hospital median (IQR) | |||
| All patients | % | All patients | % | |
| Age >75 years | 9611/30 080 (32.0) | 31 (23-38) | 23 668/52 140 (45.4) | 43 (35-51) |
| Male | 20 538/30 252 (67.9) | 69 (65-74) | 33 256/53 065 (62.7) | 64 (59-68) |
| Current smoker | 9442/27 538 (34.3) | 33 (26-40) | 12 985/47 267 (27.5) | 28 (23-33) |
| ST elevation MI | 15 282/30 383 (50.3) | 50 (39-68) | 17 881/53 216 (33.6) | 34 (25-51) |
| Comorbidity* | ||||
| Group 1: | ||||
| Heart failure | 1229/25 156 (4.9) | 3 (1-7) | 3900/48 580 (8.0) | 6 (3-11) |
| Diabetes | 5033/28 076 (17.9) | 17 (13-22) | 10 109/49 079 (20.6) | 20 (16-25) |
| Cerebrovascular disease | 1863/25 632 (7.3) | 6 (3-9) | 4698/48 270 (9.7) | 9 (6-12) |
| Obstructive pulmonary disease | 3317/25 278 (13.1) | 13 (9-16) | 7567/48 584 (15.6) | 15 (12-19) |
| Chronic renal failure | 729/25 144 (2.9) | 2 (0-4) | 2011/48 578 (4.1) | 3 (1-5) |
| One or more of above | 9673 (31.8) | 33 (26-39) | 21206 (39.8) | 40 (31-47) |
| Group 2: | ||||
| Previous acute MI | 7059/29 005 (24.3) | 24 (17-29) | 13 644/50 743 (26.9) | 26 (21-31) |
| Previous angina | 8618/28 707 (30.0) | 29 (20-35) | 16 700/49 887 (33.5) | 33 (26-38) |
| Treated hyperlipidaemia | 7885/26 913 (29.3) | 28 (18-40) | 12 872/47 671 (27.0) | 25 (18-38) |
| Treated hypertension | 12 534/28 693 (43.7) | 44 (37-50) | 22 741/49 938 (45.5) | 45 (38-51) |
| Peripheral vascular disease | 1357/27 130 (5.0) | 4 (1-6) | 2620/48 508 (5.4) | 5 (2-7) |
| One or more of above | 11 044 (36.3) | 35 (26-43) | 20 502 (38.5) | 38 (29-44) |
IQR=interquartile range; MI-myocardial infarction.
*
Divided into two groups: in group 1, differences in frequency persisted after age stratification; in group 2, differences did not persist.