Table 1.
Characteristics of patients after acute myocardial infarction and controls
| Patients with AMI | |||||
| Culprit vessel | |||||
| Characteristic | Total | LAD | CX | RCA | Controls |
| Number | 102 | 48 | 15 | 39 | 102 |
| Age (years) | |||||
| Mean (SD) | 41.2 (7.0) | 41.9 (8.0) | 41.4 (8.0) | 40.6 (7.0) | 40.9 (9.0) |
| Range | 19–59 | 19–59 | 22–59 | 19–59 | 22–59 |
| Sex (% men) | 88.2 | 87.1 | 88.9 | 88.0 | 88.2 |
| Hypercholesterolaemia (%) | 88.2 | 89.1 | 82.6 | 94.0 | 87.1 |
| Hypertension (%) | 57.8 | 60.5 | 53.8 | 62.0 | 57.8 |
| Family history of premature CAD (%) | 48.0 | 51.0 | 44.2 | 50.0 | 48.0 |
| Diabetes (%) | 16.6 | 19.2 | 16.2 | 14.0 | 16.6 |
| Smoking (%) | 67.6 | 68.9 | 71.2 | 64.0 | 67.6 |
AMI, acute myocardial infarction; CAD, coronary artery disease; CX, circumflex coronary artery; LAD, left anterior descending coronary artery; RCA, right coronary artery.