Table 1.

Characteristics of the patients according to myocardial COX-2 expression at the site of recent infarction

	COX-2 (+)	COX-2 (−)
Number of cases (%)	9 (39%)	14 (61%)
Age (years) (median (IQR))	74 (68–84)	76 (69–84)
Sex (male, %)	6 (67%)	7 (50%)
Clinical features
Heart failure (%)	7 (78%)	7 (50%)
Anterior AMI (%)	2 (22%)	7 (50%)
Previous additional AMI (%)	3 (33%)	5 (36%)
Transmural AMI (%)	8 (89%)	13 (93%)
Large AMI (%)	5 (56%)	9 (64%)
Multivessel coronary disease (%)	8 (89%)	8 (57%)
Diabetes mellitus (%)	2 (22%)	4 (29%)
Permanent infarct related artery occlusion	7 (78%)	5 (50%)
Time from AMI to death (days) (median (IQR))	23 (14–42)	16 (12–29)
Norris coronary prognostic index (median (IQR)	9 (5–13)	10 (5–13)

No significant differences were found when comparing the characteristics of the subjects in the two groups.

AMI, acute myocardial infarction; IQR, interquartile range.